The reason why cobalt is expensive can be narrowed down to three points.
Cobalt is industrially produced as a byproduct of Copper and Nickel manufacture, which means that the volume produced is relatively small than say if your were producing steel from iron ore. So this limits supply.
Although much of the world's Co is produced by the Democratic Republic of Congo and indeed they house our largest reserves of the stuff (3.4 million tonnes - almost half of our total reserves) it is refined mostly in China. This of course introduces cost of transporting the material from one continent to another in order to obtain a final product.
Lastly, demand for Co has recently increased for use in lithium ion batteries as a substitute for phosphates. It is environmentally beneficial to make this substitution because if suplhates escape into our environment they can disrupt aquatic life by increasing the number of algae - which absorb oxygen - hence reducing the amount of oxygen available for other living creatures in the water e.g. fish hence causing them to die.
To summarise, reason for high price:
1. Increase in demand for use in Lithium ion batteries
2. Costs of transporting Co long distances for refinement
3. Low supply of Co because it is made as a byproduct of Nickel and Cu
The ionic compound Co2O is called cobalt(II) oxide.
The chemical name is Cobalt (III) phosphate.
A cobalt chloride paper will turn pink when exposed to water vapor. This color change is due to the cobalt chloride reacting with the water vapor to form pink cobalt chloride hexahydrate.
Cobalt and bromine form an ionic bond. Another name for this is electrovalent.
Yes, when cobalt(III) bromide reacts with potassium sulfide, it will form cobalt(III) sulfide as a solid precipitate, as cobalt(III) sulfide is insoluble in water.
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Yes, cobalt form many chemical compounds as cobalt nitrate, cobalt chloride, cobalt sulfate, cobalt sulfide, etc.
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.
Yes, cobalt form many chemical compounds as cobalt nitrate, cobalt chloride, cobalt sulfate, cobalt sulfide, etc.
Yes, cobalt chloride and cobalt dichloride refer to the same compound. Cobalt chloride is also known as cobalt(II) chloride or cobalt dichloride, as it consists of one cobalt ion and two chloride ions.
cobalt = Cobalt/Kobalt
Cobalt oxides are: cobalt(I) oxide, cobalt(II) oxide and cobalt(II,III) oxide.
Two compounds that contain cobalt are cobalt chloride (CoCl2) and cobalt sulfate (CoSO4). Both of these compounds are commonly used in various industrial and chemical applications due to the unique properties of cobalt.
Cobalt !
There are three(3) elements in cobalt carbonate. They are Cobalt Carbon Oxygen
what do we make or get from cobalt
The valence of cobalt, in this case 2; Cobalt (II) phosphate.