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Cobalt in the Environment and Its Toxicological Implications

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Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology

Part of the book series: Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ((RECT,volume 108))

Abstract

Cobalt, atomic number 27, takes its name either from the German Kobold, meaning hobglobin, house spirit, or gnome or from the Greek cobalos, meaning mine (Schroeder 1967). It is widely distributed naturally in rocks, soils, water, and vegetation (Nilsson et al. 1985), and always occurs in nature in association with nickel and usually with arsenic. The most important cobalt minerals are smaltite (CoAs2) and cobaltite (CoAsS); however, the chief technical sources of cobalt are residues called “speisses,” which are obtained in the smelting of arsenical ores of nickel, copper, and lead (Cotton and Wilkinson 1968).

This work was carried out at the Johns Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A., supported by a fellowship from the Scientific Committee of NATO. in the smelting of arsenical ores of nickel, copper, and lead (Cotton and Wilkinson 1968).

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