cobalt information?

Question

hey
i have to do a report on the element cobalt. i would like to do it myself. could anyone post a link to a website that has a lot of information about the element cobalt (please do not write the information in the post, link to a website and not wikipedia). Thank you so much.

Answer 1

Here are some:

http://www.mii.org/Minerals/photocobalt.html

http://www.thecdi.com/cobaltfacts.php

Answer 2

Here are some reasons why cobalt is important, that you could google.
It's a trace element for animal and plant nutrition. Vitamin B12, cyanocobalamin, is a complicated molecule, called a porphyrin, with a cobalt atom at the centre.
Cobalt is one of the three elements in the periodic table which is ferromagnetic. Several highly magnetic alloys contain cobalt.
Several high-performance steels contain cobalt.
Cobalt is a strategic mineral because of the importance of its alloys in defence.
A neutron bomb, that is, a fission bomb that produces a huge number of neutrons with a fairly small fission explosion, so it kills everybody but causes minimum property damage god forbid, contains cobalt.
Cobalt salts are dark blue in colour and are used in pottery glaze.
Only a few countries have large deposits of cobalt ores.

Answer 3

http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?Formula=Co&NoIon=on&Units=SI