The History of Cobalt

Cobalt was first smelthed down and isolated in the 1730s by a Swedish chemist named George Brant. We actually need a few micrograms of cobalt every day on average because we need cobalamen, the vitamin that is based on cobalt. And elemental cobalt looks basically like nickel. It's silvery gray and shiny; if you eat a lot of it you may like throw up in the short term and get neuropathy in the long term. There seem to be four known vitamins of cobalamen,. vitamin MERS being slightly different formulas and configurations that can all function as the same vitamin in the body.