COBALT, Co (27)

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COBALT

Co (27)

ˈkəʊˈbɔːlt

PHONETICS

Cobalt is a hard, lustrous, silver-grey metal and resides within the Earth’s crust, yet can be found in a chemically combined form, reductive smelting or from small deposits found in alloys of meteoric iron.

ELEMENT BRIEF

1735 by Georg Brandt, Sweden.

DISCOVERY

German, Kobold ('goblin'), from Middle High German.

ETYMOLOGY

Cobalt

ELEMENT

Co

SYMBOL

27

ATOMIC NUMBER

7440-48-4

CAS NUMBER
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ELEMENTAL SPECTRUM


Grey

ELEMENTAL COLOUR


-

REFRACTIVE INDEX


0.310

POISSON RATIO


6.622 cm³

MOLAR VOLUME


700.00M Pa, 6.908'5k Atm

BRINELL HARDNESS


5.00

MOHS HARDNESS


1.04G Pa, 10.293'6k Atm

VICKERS HARDNESS


4,720 m/s, Mach 13.760'9

SPEED OF SOUND


180.00G Pa, 1.776'5M Atm

BULK MODULUS


75.00G Pa, 740.192'5k Atm

SHEAR MODULUS


209.00G Pa, 2.062'7M Atm

YOUNG MODULUS


ALLOTROPES

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1,768.15 K, 1,495.00 °C

MELTING POINT


3,200.15 K, 2,927.00 °C

BOILING POINT


-

AUTOMATIC IGNITION


-

FLASHPOINT


-

CRITICAL TEMPERATURE


-

CRITICAL PRESSURE


100.000'000 W/(m K)

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY


0.000'013'0 K¯¹

THERMAL EXPANSION


421.00 J/(kg K)

SPECIFIC HEAT


16.200 kJ/mol

HEAT FUSION


375.000 kJ/mol

HEAT VAPORISATION


-

HEAT COMBUSTION


1,394.00 K, 1,120.85 °C

CURIE POINT


-

NEEL POINT


-

ADIABATIC INDEX


Solid

PHASE

Conductor

ELECTRICAL TYPE


17.00M S/m

CONDUCTIVITY


60.00n Ω.m

RESISTIVITY


-

SUPERCONDUCTING POINT


Ferromagnetic

MAGNETIC TYPE


-

MASS SUSCEPTIBILITY


-

MOLAR SUSCEPTIBILITY


-

VOLUME SUSCEPTIBILITY

Transition Metal

CLASSIFICATION


58.933'195'0

ATOMIC WEIGHT


152 pm

ATOMIC RADIUS


111 pm

COVALENT RADIUS SINGLE BOND


103 pm

COVALENT RADIUS DOUBLE BOND


96 pm

COVALENT RADIUS TRIPLE BOND


192 pm

VAN DER WAALS RADIUS


[Ar]4s²3d⁷

ELECTRON CONFIGURATION


Hexagonal, Close Packed Single

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE


8.900'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS SOLID


7.750'00 g/cm³

DENSITY AS LIQUID


-

DENSITY AS GAS


P6₃/mmc

SPACE GROUP NAME


194

SPACE GROUP NUMBER


π/2, π/2 2π/3

LATTICE ANGLES


250.71, 250.71 406.95 pm

LATTICE CONSTANTS

4

VALENCE


1.88

ELECTRONEGATIVITY


64.00 kJ/mol

ELECTRON AFFINITY


IONISATION ENERGY

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0.000'3 %

UNIVERSE


0.059 %

METEORITES


0.000'6 %

SUN


0.003 %

EARTH CRUST


0.000'000'008 %

OCEANS


0.000'002 %

HUMANS

Stable

HALF LIFE


Stable

LIFETIME


3d⁷ = 3, 2, -1, -1/2

QUANTUM NUMBERS


5.600'00 b σs

NEUTRON CROSS SECTION


37.180'00 b σa

NEUTRON MASS ABSORPTION


STABLE ISOTOPES

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UNSTABLE ISOTOPES

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