{"id":2818,"date":"2026-10-09T10:34:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2026-10-09T10:34:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T10:34:31","slug":"cobalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/cobalt\/","title":{"rendered":"Element | Cobalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cobalt is a hard, lustrous metal with important magnetic and catalytic properties and is a component of vitamin B12 in biology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Properties of Cobalt<\/strong> | It exhibits ferromagnetism in certain alloys, multiple oxidation states and good high temperature strength when alloyed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Uses of Cobalt<\/strong> | Used in superalloys for turbines, rechargeable battery cathodes, catalysts and medical implants; often produced as a byproduct of nickel and copper mining.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isotopes of Cobalt<\/strong> | Stable isotope Co 59 is natural; radioactive Co 60 is used in radiotherapy and industrial radiography and requires strict radiological controls.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magnetic transition metal used in alloys, batteries and catalysts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elemental-table"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5925,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions\/5925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegeinformationpackets.com\/degreeinformation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}