Cobalt blue carbonates

Cobalt compounds have been in use for centuries, notably as pigments ( cobalt blue ) in glass and porcelain (a double silicate of cobalt and potassium) the metal itself has been produced on an industrial scale only during the twentieth century. Cobalt is relatively uncommon but widely distributed it occurs biologically in vitamin B12 (a complex of cobalt(III) in which the cobalt is bonded octahedrally to nitrogen atoms and the carbon atom of a CN group). In its ores, it is usually in combination with sulphur or arsenic, and other metals, notably copper and silver, are often present. Extraction is carried out by a process essentially similar to that used for iron, but is complicate because of the need to remove arsenic and other metals. 

The mauve colored cobalt(II) carbonate [7542-09-8] of commerce is a basic material of indeterminate stoichiometry, (CoCO ) ( (0 )2) H20, that contains 45—47% cobalt. It is prepared by adding a hot solution of cobalt salts to a hot sodium carbonate or sodium bicarbonate solution. Precipitation from cold solutions gives a light blue unstable product. Dissolution of cobalt metal in ammonium carbonate solution followed by thermal decomposition of the solution gives a relatively dense carbonate. Basic cobalt carbonate is virtually insoluble in water, but dissolves in acids and ammonia solutions. It is used in the preparation of pigments and as a starting material in the preparation of cobalt compounds. 

Figure 4.19 shows the p-PIXE X-ray spectra collected simultaneously from a fragment ( 1 mm in diameter) of an archaeological cobalt-blue glass (Uzonyi et al. 2001). This sample contains numerous minor and trace elements from carbon to lead, and the instrument employed both an ultra-thin window (UTW) detector as well as a Be-windowed detector. 

Transparent Cobalt Blue. Cobalt blue [1345-16-0] C.I. Pigment Blue 28 77346, is also produced as a transparent pigment by precipitating cobalt and then aluminum as hydroxides or carbonates from salt solutions using alkali. The hydroxides or carbonates are then filtered, washed, dried, and calcined at 1000°C [5.278]. It is important to carry out the precipitation with high dilution and to distribute the alkali uniformly throughout the entire reaction volume. 

A powder which burns with a green flame is obtained by the addition of nitrate of baryta to chlorate of potash, nitrate of potash, acetate of copper. A white flame is made by the addition of sulfide of antimony, sulfide of arsenic, camphor. Red by the mixture of lampblack, coal, bone ash, mineral oxide of iron, nitrate of strontia, pumice stone, mica, oxide of cobalt. Blue with ivory, bismuth, alum, zinc, copper sulfate purified of its sea water [sic]. Yellow by amber, carbonate of soda, sulfate of soda, cinnabar. It is necessary in order to make the colors come out well to animate the combustion by adding chlorate of potash.15... 

An increasing number of colored inorganic pigments are FDA-compliant. Historically, yellow iron oxide, red iron oxide, black iron oxide, zinc ferrite, burnt umber, raw and burnt sienna, channel carbon black, chromium oxide green, ultramarine blue, cobalt blue and copper chrome black have enjoyed FDA—compliant status, under 21 CFR 178.3297, Colorants for Polymers . More recently, the FDA has been successfully petitioned with regard to nickel titanium yellow, chrome titanium yellow, and cobalt green under 21 CFR 170.39, Threshold of Regulation for Substances Used in Food-Contact Articles . 

This pigment is described by Riffault et al. (1874) as a combination of aluminium oxide and cobalt oxide. It is prepared by faking an alum solution and dissolving in it cobalt nitrate, sulfate or chloride. A pink-white precipitate is formed with sodium or potassium carbonate the product is then washed, dried and calcined in a crucible at high temperature. It would consequently appear to be a manufacturing variant of cobalt aluminium oxide (that is, cobalt blue ) and is also stated to be synonymous with Gahn s ultramarine qq.v.). 

For products for outdoor use, such as bottles and shipping crates made from HDPE, the following pigments are recommended white opac (rutile Ti02 after-treated), yellow (cadmium yellow, nickel titanium yellow, chrome titanium yellow), red (cadmium red, iron oxide red), blue (cobalt blue, ultramarine blue), green (cobalt green, chrome oxide green), brown (iron oxide brown, chrome iron brown), black (carbon black-furnace). 

Clays and metal oxides and salts such as talc, kaolinite, mica, zinc oxide, titanium oxide, iron oxide, hydrated chromium oxide, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, calcium carbonate, barium sulfate, etc. are widely used as pigments for cosmetics. Since these pigments possess acidic and basic surface properties, and hence catalytic activity, cos-... 

Chrornium—cobalt—alurninum oxide [68187-11-1]—Cl Pigment Blue 36, Cl No. 77343. A blue—green pigment obtained by calcining a mixture of chromium oxide, cobalt carbonate, and aluminum oxide. It may contain small amounts (<1% each) of oxides of barium, boron, siUcon, and nickel. 

The preparation of film electrodes Prussian blue films are usually prepared by cycling an electrode in a freshly prepared solution containing iron(III) and hexacyanoferrate(III) ions [70-72]. As substrate, mostly platinum is used, sometimes glassy carbon [73] is used, and very frequently ITO electrodes [74] are used because the latter are very useful for electrochromism studies. Similar procedures using solutions containing metal ions and hexacyanoferrate(III) have been used to deposit cobalt hexacyanoferrate [75] and chromium hexacyanoferrate [76, 77]. Crumbliss et al. reported a plasma deposition of iron species from a plasma containing iron pentacarbonyl and ethane, followed by electrochemical derivatization of the deposited iron sites with the help of hexacyanoferrate solutions [78]. 

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