Cobalt Market PDF
Cobalt is a chemical element found in the earthu2019s crust only chemically combined form. It is a free element which is produced by reductive smelting. Cobalt is a by-product of nickel and copper; therefore, most of the cobalt is produced by the production of nickel and copper. Pure metallic cobalt is a hard, lustrous, silver-gray metal and is traditionally used in several industrial applications including high-temperature superalloys (majorly in jet turbines), stainless steels, hard-facing products, medical prosthetics, and cemented carbides. In recent years, lithium-ion batteries have become an increasingly important end-use for cobalt owing to the development of the electric vehicle (EV) industry.
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