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What are the Relevance and importance of Cobalt in Biological System and Medicine?
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Cobalt in small amounts is essential to many living organisms, including humans. Having 0.13 to 0.30 mg/kg of cobalt in soils markedly improves the health of grazing animals. Cobalt is a central component of the vitamin cobalamin, or vitamin B12.
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What foods is cobalt found in?
A cobalt steel alloy is used for making permanent magnets. Cobalt is used in ceramics some paints. Metal alloyed with cobalt can withstand high temperatures are used in gas turbine engines and for cutting and machining steel. Cobalt-60 is a radioactive cobalt isotopic tracer used extensively in medicine, agriculture, and industry.
Is cobalt chloride the same with cobalt dichloride?
Cobalt (I) chloride = Cobalt monochloride = CoCl Cobalt (II) chloride = Cobalt dichloride = CoCl2 Cobalt (III) chloride = Cobalt trichloride = CoCl3
What charges can cobalt have?
Cobalt is generally bivalent or trivalent. So either Cobalt (II) or Cobalt (III).
What are two compounds that contain cobalt?
Cobalt Chloride, Cobalt Nitrate
This transition metal is especially known for the deep blue color?
Cobalt !
Some physiological importance of cobalt?
cobalt acts as the cofactor for vitamine cyanocobalamine-(vit-B12)
Why is cobalt used in medicine as a tracer and not uranium?
Cobalt 60 is not used in medicine as tracer. Cobalt 60 is used to destroy cancer tumors by gamma irradiation. Uranium has a gamma radiation with an energy of about 185 keV, very small to be used for a medicinal irradiation.
What foods is cobalt found in?
A cobalt steel alloy is used for making permanent magnets. Cobalt is used in ceramics some paints. Metal alloyed with cobalt can withstand high temperatures are used in gas turbine engines and for cutting and machining steel. Cobalt-60 is a radioactive cobalt isotopic tracer used extensively in medicine, agriculture, and industry.
A hard magnetic metal used in the production of steel a radioactive form of the element is used in cancer treatment?
A radioactive metal used in medicine is radium. Others include magnesium, iron, cobalt 60, and several other element that are used.
What is a compound for cobalt?
Yes, cobalt form many chemical compounds as cobalt nitrate, cobalt chloride, cobalt sulfate, cobalt sulfide, etc.
Can cobalt form a compound?
Yes, cobalt form many chemical compounds as cobalt nitrate, cobalt chloride, cobalt sulfate, cobalt sulfide, etc.
What compounds are in cobalt?
There are no compounds in Cobalt. It is completely impossible, because Cobalt is an element, and compounds are made up of elements. If this is what you meant to ask, then there a a lot of compounds with Cobalt in them. One example is Cobalt (III) Fluoride, chemical formula CoF3. Any compound with a "Co" (the "C" must be capitalized and the "o" must lowercase) in it contains Cobalt.
What does cobalt mean in German?
cobalt = Cobalt/Kobalt
What is cobalt and nickel?
Cobalt, element 27, is a transition metal, and it is in Group 9 on the periodic table. Cobalt is critical to industry. It is used in making a number of different metal alloys, as a catalyst, and is used in compounds to manufacture coloring agents. It is a tough, lustrous silver-white magnetic metallic element that is related to and occurs with iron and nickel and is used especially in alloys. In nutrition, cobalt is a trace mineral that forms part of the structure of vitamin B12. The total amount of cobalt in your body is 1.1 mg. It is readily absorbed from your small intestine, and your liver stores most of your body's cobalt. Cobalt is essential to humans as well as to animals. It is the main constituent of cobalamin, also known as vitamin B12, that is basically cobalt's biological reservoir. The activity and function of cobalt is essentially the same as vitamin B12. Cobalt also assists in regulating enzymes that break down proteins, including casein, phosvitin, and other phosphoproteins. Along with nickel and manganese, cobalt can be a good alternative for zinc in some enzymes.
Is cobalt chloride the same with cobalt dichloride?
Cobalt (I) chloride = Cobalt monochloride = CoCl Cobalt (II) chloride = Cobalt dichloride = CoCl2 Cobalt (III) chloride = Cobalt trichloride = CoCl3
What charges can cobalt have?
Cobalt is generally bivalent or trivalent. So either Cobalt (II) or Cobalt (III).
What kinds of metals do mediciences have in them?
Metals are used in medicine for diagnostic purposes. One example of this is cobalt. Metals can also be toxic. Metals such as mercury and copper can be harmful.
