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This is obtained as an olive-green powder by heating the metal in air or steam or by thermal decomposition of the hydroxide, carbonate or nitrate. It has the sodium chloride lattice and is antiferromagnetic below 292�°K. When heated in oxygen above 400�° the black oxide Co3O4 is obtained. This oxide is isomorphous with magnetite Fe3O4, and has tetrahedrally surrounded cobalt(II) ions and octahedrally surrounded cobalt(III) ions. Both these oxides are readily reduced to the metal by heating in hydrogen or with carbon. The reactions of CoO with silica, alumina and zinc oxide are used to form pigments in the ceramic industry.
Application:
Mainly used for glass, enamel, ceramic, magnetic materials such as dense agent, azure blue, cobalt blue, cobalt green color colorant, catalyst, livestock nutrition agent. It is also used in the preparation of cobalt salts.
In pigments for ceramics; glass coloring and decolorization; oxidation catalyst for drying oils, fast-drying paints and varnishes; preparation of cobalt-metal catalysts, Co powder for binder in sintered tungsten carbide; in semiconductors.
Supplier: Iron oxide, zinc product, aluminum, rutile, ilmenite, struverite, monazite, etc
Buyer: Metal ores, zircon sand
Supplier: Remelted zinc ingots, pwg zinc ingots, zinc dross, zinc ash, zinc oxide, lead dross, magnesium ingots, all grades, silicon metal, lead ore/ concentrate, zinc concentrate/sulphide
Buyer: Zinc dross, zinc ash or skimming from hot dip galvanizing process, zinc fines, zinc die cast scraps, lead dross, brass and copper scraps
