Cobalt
- CAS No.
- 7440-48-4
- Chemical Name:
- Cobalt
- Synonyms
- COBALT POWDER;Cobalt rod;COBALT METAL;Kobalt;COBALT;Aquacat;CO005110;CO000140;CO000150;CO000180
- CBNumber:
- CB9408267
- Molecular Formula:
- Co
- Molecular Weight:
- 58.93
- MOL File:
- 7440-48-4.mol
- MSDS File:
- SDS
- Modify Date:
- 2024/5/30 16:33:02
| Melting point | 1495°C |
|---|---|
| Boiling point | 2900 °C (lit.) |
| Density | 8.9 g/mL at 25 °C (lit.) |
| vapor pressure | 0Pa at 20℃ |
| storage temp. | no restrictions. |
| solubility | H2O: soluble |
| form | wire |
| Specific Gravity | 8.9 |
| color | Pink to red to violet |
| Resistivity | 6.24 μΩ-cm, 20°C |
| Water Solubility | insoluble |
| Merck | 13,2452 |
| Exposure limits |
TLV-TWA 0.05 mg as Co/m3 (ACGIH) PEL-TWA: 0.05 mg as Co/m3 (NIOSH, OSHA) TLV-STEL 0.1 mg as Co/m3 (ACGIH) IDLH 20 mg as Co/m3 (NIOSH) . |
| Stability | Stable, but pyrophoric in air when finely divided. Incompatible with acetylene, hydrazinium nitrate, oxidizing agents, acids. |
| CAS DataBase Reference | 7440-48-4(CAS DataBase Reference) |
| IARC | 2B (Vol. 52) 1991, 2B (Vol. 86) 2006, 2A (Vol. 86) 2006 |
| NIST Chemistry Reference | Cobalt(7440-48-4) |
| EPA Substance Registry System | Cobalt (7440-48-4) |
| Modulus of Elasticity | 211 GPa |
|---|---|
| Poissons Ratio | 0.32 |
| Shear Modulus | 82.6 GPa |
| Hardness, Vickers | 253 |
| Hardness, Brinell | 125 |
SAFETY
Risk and Safety Statements
| Symbol(GHS) |   GHS07,GHS08 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Signal word | Danger | |||||||||
| Hazard statements | H302-H317-H319-H334-H341-H350-H360F-H412 | |||||||||
| Precautionary statements | P273-P280-P301+P312-P302+P352-P305+P351+P338-P308+P313 | |||||||||
| Hazard Codes | T,Xn,F | |||||||||
| Risk Statements | 45-23/24/25-34-53-42/43-40-36/37-36/38-17-11-15 | |||||||||
| Safety Statements | 53-23-26-36/37/39-45-61-37-24-22-36/37-5-43 | |||||||||
| RIDADR | UN 3264 8/PG 3 | |||||||||
| OEB | D | |||||||||
| OEL | TWA: 0.05 mg/m3 | |||||||||
| WGK Germany | 3 | |||||||||
| RTECS | GF8750000 | |||||||||
| TSCA | Yes | |||||||||
| HS Code | 8105 20 00 | |||||||||
| HazardClass | 4.1 | |||||||||
| PackingGroup | III | |||||||||
| Toxicity | LD50 orally in Rabbit: 6170 mg/kg | |||||||||
| IDLA | 20 mg Co/m3 | |||||||||
| NFPA 704 |
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Cobalt price More Price(122)
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| Sigma-Aldrich(India) | 745553 | Cobalt nanowires powder, diam. × L 200-300?nm × 100-200?μm | 7440-48-4 | 500MG | ₹25984.65 | 2022-06-14 | Buy |
| Sigma-Aldrich(India) | 697745 | Cobalt Carbon coated magnetic, nanopowder, <50?nm particle size (TEM), ≥99% | 7440-48-4 | 500MG | ₹12343.2 | 2022-06-14 | Buy |
| Sigma-Aldrich(India) | 398810 | Cobalt rod, diam. 5.0?mm, 99.95% trace metals basis | 7440-48-4 | 50MM | ₹18348.3 | 2022-06-14 | Buy |
| Sigma-Aldrich(India) | 398810 | Cobalt rod, diam. 5.0?mm, 99.95% trace metals basis | 7440-48-4 | 150MM | ₹46631.1 | 2022-06-14 | Buy |
| Sigma-Aldrich | 356891 | Cobalt foil, thickness 1.0?mm, 99.95% trace metals basis | 7440-48-4 | 6.25CM2 | ₹18004.2 | 2022-06-14 | Buy |
Cobalt Chemical Properties,Uses,Production
Description
Cobalt was discovered by George Brandt in 1737. Cobalt exists in valence states from 0 to 5, with the most stable (+2 and +3) being the most common. Although there is only one stable isotope of cobalt, there are a number of unstable isotopes. Two of these, cobalt-60 and cobalt-57, are in use commercially. Cobalt-60 is used for cancer treatment and food irradiation. Cobalt-57 has research applications.
Chemical Properties
Cobalt is a silver-gray to black, hard, brittle, magnetic metal. It is relatively rare; the important mineral sources are the arsenides, sulfides, and oxidized forms. It is generally obtained as a by-product of other metals, particularly copper. The fume and dust of cobalt metal is odorless and black. The appearance and odor of cobalt compounds and their dusts and fumes vary with the compound. Cobalt metal in powdered form is incompatible with fused ammonium nitrate, hydrozinium nitrate, and strong oxidizing agents and should be avoided. It ignites on contact with bromide pentafl uoride. Powdered cobalt ignites spontaneously in air. Exposure to cobalt metal fume and dust can occur through inhalation, ingestion, and eye or skin contact.
Physical properties
Cobalt is a bluish steel-gray metal that can be polished to a bright shine. It is brittle andis not malleable unless alloyed with other metals. It is magnetic, and when alloyed with aluminum and nickel, it is called alnico metal, which acts as a super-magnet with many uses inindustry. Chemically and physically, cobalt acts much as do its two partners, iron (Fe) andnickel (Ni), located on each side of it in period 4 on the periodic table. In particular, iron,cobalt, and nickelare unique in that they possess natural magnetic properties. Cobalt’s meltingpoint is 1,495°C, its boiling point is 2,927°C, and its density is 8.86 g/cm3.
Isotopes
There are 33 isotopes of cobalt, ranging from Co-48 to Co-75, with half-livesranging from a few nanoseconds to 5.272 years for cobalt-60. Cobalt-59 is the onlystable isotope that constitutes almost all (roughly 100%) of the element’s natural presence on Earth. All the other isotopes are radioactive and are created artificially in nuclearreactors or nuclear explosions.
Origin of Name
Cobalt was given the name kobolds (or kolalds, or kololos) by German miners. It means “goblin” (see “History” for more on this story).
Occurrence
Cobalt is the 32nd most abundant element on Earth even though it makes up only 0.003%of the Earth’s crust. It is not found in the free metallic state, despite being widely distributedin igneous rocks as minerals. Its two most common mineral ores are cobaltite (CoAsS) anderythrite [Co3(AsO4)2]. These ores are placed in blast furnaces to produce cobalt arsenide(Co2As), which is then treated with sulfuric acid to remove the arsenic. Finally, the productcobalt tetraoxide (Co3O4) is reduced by heat with carbon (Co3O4 + C → 3Co + 2CO2), resulting in cobalt metal.Cobalt is also found in seawater, meteorites, and other ores such as linnaeite, chloanthite,and smaltite, and traces are found mixed with the ores of silver, copper, nickel, zinc, andmanganese. Cobalt ores are found in Canada and parts of Africa, but most of the cobalt usedin the United States is recovered as a by-product of the mining, smelting, and refining of theores of iron, nickel, lead, copper, and zinc.
Characteristics
Cobalt has the highest Curie point of any metal or alloy of cobalt. The Curie point is thetemperature at which an element will lose its magnetism before it reaches its melting point.Cobalt’s Curie point is 1,121°C, and its melting point is 1,495°C. About 25% of all cobaltmined in the world is used as an alloy with other metals. The most important is the alloyalnico, which consists of nickel, aluminum, and cobalt. Alnico is used to make powerful permanent magnets with many uses, such as CT, PET, and MRI medical instruments. It is alsoused for electroplating metals to give a fine surface that resists oxidation.
Uses
For alloys; manufacture of cobalt salts; in nuclear technology. Since 60Co can be encapsulated compactly, it has replaced radium in experimental medicine and cancer research. Cobalt is also used in the cobalt bomb, a hydrogen bomb surrounded by a cobalt metal shell. When the nuclear explosion occurs 60Co is formed from 59Co by neutron capture. Considered a "dirty bomb" because of long half-life and intense b- and g radiation. Max permissible concentration of 60Co in air: 10-7mCi/cc, Natl. Bur. Stand. Handb. 69, 31 (1959).
Production Methods
World sources of the metal and the oxide are chiefly from
Zaire, Belgium–Luxembourg, Norway, and Finland, in that
order, with Zaire furnishing 58% of the world’s supply.
Practically all cobalt produced is a by- or coproduct of
other metals, chiefly copper; accordingly, a description of the
mining process is omitted. The processes used in extracting
cobalt from its ores vary according to the type of ore and
locations of the ore deposit.
Arsenical ores are concentrated by hand sorting, gravity
separation, or froth flotation, and are smelted in a blast
furnace with coke and limestone to a speiss (an impure
mixture of iron, cobalt, and nickel arsenides). The speiss is
ground, roasted with salt, and leached with water. Insoluble
chlorides remaining after the leaching process are
ground with sulfuric acid, washed, and filtered, and the
washings are added to the liquid from the leaching step.
The combined solution is oxidized and then neutralized
with lime.
Basic ferric arsenate precipitates and is removed, leaving
a solution-containing cobalt and nickel. The addition of
successive portions of sodium hydroxide and sodium hypochlorite
precipitates cobalt as the hydroxide, which is
initially pure but finally admixes with nickel hydroxide.
The cobalt precipitate is dried, ground, and formed into
pellets, which are reduced by heating with charcoal to
cobalt metal.
Definition
ChEBI: A cobalt group element atom that has atomic number 27.
Reactions
Cobalt absorbs very little hydrogen even at high temperatures and nitrogen is practically insoluble up to 1200°C. Finely divided cobalt is pyrophoric in air, but the massive metal is scarcely attacked below 300°C. The oxide scale on cobalt heated in air or oxygen up to 900° consists of an outside layer of CO3O4 and a layer of CoO next to the metal ; above 900°, Co3O4 decomposes and the scale consists of CoO only. Cobalt reacts with many non-metals when heated, e.g. the halogens, boron, sulphur, phosphorus, arsenic and antimony, the reactions often proceeding with incandescence. Fluorine forms CoF3, while the other halogens give the cobalt(II) halide.
World Health Organization (WHO)
WHO Comment(non-radioactive forms): The World Health Organization has no information further to the above regarding preparations containing cobalt or to indicate that they are still commercially manufactured.
Air & Water Reactions
Burns brilliantly when exposed to air [Mellor 14:453(1946-1947)]. Insoluble in water.
Reactivity Profile
Pyrophoric Cobalt is a reducing agent. Decomposes acetylene in the cold as the metal becomes incandescent [Mellor 14:513(1946-1947]. Incompatible with oxidizing agents such as ammonium nitrate, bromine pentafluoride, and nitryl fluoride.
Hazard
Cobalt is found in most natural foods. Although a necessary trace element, it is toxic to humans if ingested in large amounts. The human body does excrete in urine excessive amounts of cobalt compounds such as found in vitamin B12.
Cobaltous chromate (CoCrO4) is brownish-yellow to grayish-black (the color depends on its purity) is a dangerous carcinogen (causes cancer).
Some years ago, a cobalt additive was used by some beer makers to maintain a foam head on their beer. Those who imbibed excessively developed what is known as beer drinkers syndrome, which caused some deaths from enlarged and flabby hearts.
Health Hazard
Cobalt is an essential element. Its deficiencycan result in pernicious anemia. It is present invitamin B12. Excessive intake of this elementmay result in polycythemia or overproductionof erythrocytes and heart lesions. Exposure toits dusts can produce cough and respiratoryirritation. Chronic inhalation of its dusts orfumes can decrease pulmonary functions andmay cause diffuse nodular fibrosis and otherpulmonary diseases. Skin contact may inducedermal hypersensitivity reactions, producingan allergy-type dermatitis.
Co(II) ion is reported to be genotoxicin vitro and in vivo and carcinogenic inrodents (De Boeck et al. 2003) Occupationalexposure to hard metal (cemented carbide)dust is linked to an increased risk of lungcancer.
Fire Hazard
Literature sources indicate that the dust of Cobalt is flammable.
Industrial uses
Cobalt (symbol Co) is a lustrous, silvery-bluemetallic chemical element, resembling nickelbut with a bluish tinge instead of the yellow ofnickel. It is rarer and costlier than nickel andits price has varied widely in recent years.Although allied to nickel, it has distinctive differences.It is more active chemically thannickel. It is dissolved by dilute H2SO4, HNO3,or HCl acids, and is attacked slowly by alkalis.The oxidation rate of pure cobalt is 25 timesthat of nickel. Its power of whitening copperalloys is inferior to that of nickel, but smallamounts in Ni–Cu alloys will neutralize theyellowish tinge of the nickel and make themwhiter. The metal is diamagnetic like nickel, buthas three times the maximum permeability.Like tungsten, it imparts red-hardness to toolsteels. It also hardens alloys to a greater extentthan nickel, especially in the presence of carbon,and can form more chemical compoundsin alloys than nickel.
Its chemical properties resemble, in part,those of both nickel and iron. Cobalt is themetal with the highest Curie temperature(1121°C) and the lowest allotropic transformationtemperature (399°C). Below 421°C, cobaltis close-packed hexagonal; above, it is facecenteredcubic.
Biological Activity
Cobalt is a vital trace element in animal nutrition. Ruminants grazing upon cobaltdeficient pastures exhibit retarded growth, loss of appetite and anaemia ; rapid recovery from these symptoms occurs upon feeding the animals with a cobalt-supplemented diet. Cobalt salts are not therefore considered to be particularly toxic to animals, but to man they can in sufficiently large doses irritate the gastro-intestinal tract and cause nausea, vomiting and diarrhoea. Small amounts of cobalt, however, are invaluable in the treatment of pernicious anaemia. The discovery in 1926 of the antipernicious anaemia factor in liver led to the discovery in 1948 of vitamin B12, which was very soon after shown to contain cobalt.
Safety Profile
Confirmed carcinogen with experimental neoplastigenic and tumorigenic data. Poison by intravenous, intratracheal, and intraperitoneal routes. Moderately toxic by ingestion. Inhalation of the dust may cause pulmonary damage. The powder may cause dermatitis. Ingestion of soluble salts produces nausea and vomiting by local irritation. Powdered cobalt igmtes spontaneously in air. Flammable when exposed to heat or flame. Explosive reaction with hydrazinium nitrate, ammonium nitrate + heat, and 1,3,4,7-tetramethylisoindole (at 39OOC). Ignites on contact with bromine pentafluoride. Incandescent reaction with acetylene or nitryl fluoride. See also COBALT COMPOUNDS.
Potential Exposure
Possible risk of forming tumors, Suspected reprotoxic hazard. Nickel-aluminumcobalt alloys are used for permanent magnets. Alloys with nickel, aluminum, copper, beryllium, chromium, and molybdenum are used in the electrical, automobile, and aircraft industries. Cobalt is added to tool steels to improve their cutting qualities and is used as a binder in the manufacture of tungsten carbide tools. Various cobalt compounds are used as pigments in enamels, glazes, and paints; as catalysts in afterburners; and in the glass, pottery, photographic, electroplating industries. Radioactive cobalt (60Co) is used in the treatment of cancer. Cobalt has been added to beer to promote formation of foam but cobalt acts with alcohol to produce severe cardiac effects at concentrations as low as 1.2-1.5 mg/L of beer. Cobalt is part of the vitamin B12 molecule and as such is an essential nutrient. The requirement of humans for cobalt in the form of vitamin B12 is about 0.13 μg/day.
Carcinogenicity
In mammalian cells in vitro cobalt compounds have caused DNA strand breaks, sister chromatid exchanges, and aneuploidy, but not chromosomal aberrations.Cobalt salts are generally nonmutagenic in prokaryotic assays.
Environmental Fate
Cobalt most often depresses the activity of enzymes, including catalase, amino levulinic acid synthetase, and P-450, enzymes involved in cellular respiration. The Krebs citric acid cycle can be blocked by cobalt resulting in the inhibition of cellular energy production. Cobalt can replace zinc in a number of zincrequired enzymes such as alcohol dehydrogenase. Cobalt can also enhance the kinetics of some enzymes, such as heme oxidase in the liver. Cobalt interferes with and depresses iodine metabolism, resulting in reduced thyroid activity. Reduced thyroid activity can lead to goiter.
storage
Cobalt metal dust (powdered metal) should be stored in a cool, dry, well-ventilated area in tightly sealed containers that are labeled in accordance with OSHA standards. Containers of cobalt metal dust should be protected from physical damage and ignition sources, and should be stored separately from strong oxidizers.
Shipping
UN3189 Metal powder, self-heating, n.o.s., Hazard Class: 4.2; Labels: 4.2-Spontaneously combustible material
Waste Disposal
Cobalt metal may be recovered from scrap and cobalt compounds from spent catalysts as alternatives to disposal.
Cobalt Preparation Products And Raw materials
Raw materials
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