Name: Cobalt

Atomic Number: 27

Family Name: Transitional Metal

Atomic Mass: 58.9332

Group: 8B

Brittle, hard metal, resembling iron and nickel in appearance. It has a metallic permeability of about two thirds of that iron.

-Magnets

-Ceramics

-Batteries

-Used in radiotherapy

-Vitamin B12

- Compounds are used in paint pigments

-Jet turbines and gas turbine generators

Usually Cobalt is produced as a by-product from the production of Copper, Nickel and Lead. The Ore is roasted to form a mixture of metals and metal oxides. Cobalt is produced as a hydroxide by precipitation with sodium hypochlorite (NaOCL)

-Used for centuries in Ceramics

-The Cobalt -60, dispersed as a nuclear fallout, creates what is sometimes called a dirty bomb or a cobalt bomb, once predicted by Leo Szilard as being capable of wiping out all life on earth.(there was a comic that was made about that called the Cobalt 60. It was about a world ruled by aliens because the bomb destroyed it and a boy whose father was killed by the evil Stronium 90.

-The Congo is the world leader in Cobalt mining, producing two thirds of the world's cobalt

Cobalt was announced to be an element by Brandt about 1739 (or possibly 1735). He had been trying to demonstrate that the blue color of glass was because of a new element, cobalt, rather than bismuth, an element often found in the same locations as cobalt.