Cobalt
| Cobalt | |||||
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| Physical Properties | |||||
| Atomic symbol: | Co | ||||
| Atomic number: | 27 | ||||
| Melting point: | 1495°C | ||||
| Boiling point: | 2870°C | ||||
| Isotopes: | 56Co, 57Co, 58Co, 59Co, 60Co | ||||
| Electronegativity: | Pauling scale: 1.88±0 | ||||
Cobalt, previously known by its old name Kupferkobold, meaning copper goblin, is a blue-coloured pigment known for having properties of an element. However, everyone knows it for being that dark shade of sky blue.
Characteristics[edit | edit source]
On touch with cobalt powder, your hand immediately turns cobalt blue. This is because cobalt blue is known for trying to make everything it touches blue. However, it does not like shades of cyan or aqua because they're not blue.[1]. Hence, most companies managing cobalt powder use teal or cyan gloves to prevent their gloves from being infested with cobalt blue. Once even a single cell of your body turns into cobalt, it's all over. The virus grows exponentially, and by the end of the hour, you would've already been cobalt-ified long ago. This is called cobaltization, and is one of the leading causes of death in southern Europe. As for the metal of cobalt, it's much more tame. However, some of it could turn into the deadly cobalt blue and infect the rest of the metal, so be warned.
History[edit | edit source]
Cobalt was first discovered by, you guessed it, the ancient Egyptians. It is rumoured by Society Inc. that the Egyptians got help from otherworldly societies to extract cobalt from the other planets just to make ceramics that eventually get broken by babies. What a waste of those aliens' time. They could've been conquering another planet right now, but no! These humans back on earth decided that it'd be cool to have some element they could've just mined out of the ground, so they call these weird dudes for help. Guys, you do NOT need help. I'm so glad we're in the 21st century CE and not the 21st century BCE. Today, some random country all the way in Africa decided to produce over one hundred thousand tonnes of this metal in 2022. It's almost like africa is the heart of precious minerals. North America can go suck it because they have Canada and all the other places don't.
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ See Shades of Blue
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| 1H Hydrogen | 2He Helium | ||||||||||||||||
| 3Li Lithium | 4Be Beryllium | 5B Boron | 6C Carbon | 7N Nitrogen | 8O Oxygen | 9F Fluorine | 10Ne Neon | ||||||||||
| 11Na Sodium | 12 Mg Magnesium | 13Al Aluminum | 14 Si Silicon | 15 P Phosphorus | 16 S Sulfur | 17Cl Chlorine | 18Ar Argent | ||||||||||
| 19 K Potassium | 20 Ca Calcium | 21Sc Scandinavium | 22Ti Titanium | 23 V Vanadium | 24Cr Chromium | 25 Mn Manganese | 26Fe Iron | 27 Co Cobalt | 28Ni Nickel | 29 Cu Copper | 30 Zn Zinc | 31 Ga Gallium | 32 Ge Germanium | 33 As Arsenic | 34 Se Selenium | 35 Br Bromine | 36Kr Krypton |
| 37 Rb Rubidium | 38 Sr Strontium | 39 Y Yttrium | 40 Zr Zirconium | 41 Nb Niobium | 42 Mo Molybdenum | 43 Tc Technetium | 44 Ru Ruthenium | 45 Rh Rhodium | 46 Pd Palladium | 47Ag Silver | 48 Cd Cadmium | 49In Indium | 50Sn Tin | 51 Sb Antimony | 99Te Tedium | 53 I Iodine | 54Xe Xenon |
| 55 Cs Caesium | 56 Ba Barium | 57-71 La-Lu Lanthanides | 72 Hf Hafnium | 73 Ta Tantalum | 74 W Tungsten | 75 Re Rhenium | 76 Os Osmium | 77 Ir Iridium | 78Pt Platinum | 79Au Gold | 80Hg Mercury | 81 Tl Thallium | 82Pb Lead | 83Bi Bismuth | 84Po Polonium | 85 At Astatine | 86Rn Radon |
| 87 Fr Francium | 88 Ra Radium | 89-103 Ac-Lr Actinides | 104 Rf Rutherfordium | 105 Db Dubnium | 106 Sg Seaborgium | 107 Bh Bohrium | 108 Hs Hassium | 109 Mt Meitnerium | 110 Ds Darmstadtium | 111 Uuu Unununium | 112 Cn Copernicium | 113 Nh Nihonium | 114 Fl Flerovium | 115 Mc Moscovium | 116 Lv Livermorium | 117 Ts Tennessine | 118 Og Oganesson |
| 119Un Uncyclopedium | 120 Ub Unobtanium | 121 Aeo Awesomnium | 122Fa Fartium | 123St Stalinium | 124Ob Obamium | 125Sl Stalloneium | 126 Ad Adamantium | 127 Vb Vibranium | -1SuStupidium | 1/5Bm Brucium | 1/2*Ch Cheesium | 3/4Pl Plotonium | 4.5Op Opium | ∞Hu Homoerectium | |||
| 57 La Lanthanum | 58 Ce Cerium | 59Pr Praseodymium | 60 Nd Neodymium | 61 Pm Pentium | 62 Sm Samarium | 63 Eu Europium | 64 Gd Gadolinium | 65 Tb Terbium | 66 Dy Dysprosium | 67 Ho Holmium | 68 Er Erbium | 69 Tm Thulium | 70 Yb Ytterbium | 71 Lu Lutetium | |||
| 89 Ac Actinium | 90 Th Thorium | 91 Pa Protactinium | 92U Uranium | 93 Np Neptunium | 94Pu Plutonium | 95 Am Americium | 96 Cm Curium | 97 Bk Berkelium | 98 Cf Californium | 99 Es Einsteinium | 100 Fm Fermium | 101 Md Mendelevium | 102 No Nobelium | 103 Lr Lawrencium |
*Technically an atom of Cheesium has an atomic number of four (4), but that's only for the idiotic table.
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