Solubilization of cobalt from tungsten carbide–cobalt powder

Final report on carcinogens background document for cobalt-tungsten carbide: powders and hard metals.

Development of Creep-Resistant Tungsten Carbide Copper Cemented Carbide

Fine-grained tungsten carbide copper (WC-Cu) cemented carbide was sintered via spark plasma sintering at 1773K using a fine WC powder with a mean particle size of 0.11 mm. The mechanical properties were compared with tungsten carbide cobalt (WC-Co) cemented carbide and a binderless WC-sintered material. The Vickers hardness and fracture toughness obtained by the indentation fracture method for ...

Notes on the toxicology of cobalt metal.

This investigation originated in a report by Dr. Joan Cotterill, one of H.M. medical inspectors of factories, that workers in a Midlands factory making hard cutting tools complained of shortness of breath and that in radiographs of their lungs, some of them showed abnormal shadows. Many of the processes in the factory are trade secrets, but it is known that powdered cobalt metal is used as a bo...

Parametric optimization of powder mixed electrical discharge machining for nickel-based superalloy inconel-800 using response surface methodology

Background: Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is a well-established non-conventional machining process for the machining of electrically conductive and difficult-to-machine materials. But its applications are limited because of the slow machining rate and poor surface finish. Powder mixed EDM (PMEDM) is unitary of the recent progresses in the EDM process in which powder particles mixed in th...

Cobalt and Cobalt Compounds That Release Cobalt Ions In Vivo

The Report on Carcinogens includes two separate listings (i.e., profiles) for cobalt-related exposures: Cobalt and Cobalt Compounds That Release Cobalt Ions In Vivo and Cobalt-Tungsten Carbide: Powders and Hard Metals. Cobalt and cobalt compounds as a class are listed for the first time in the Fourteenth Report on Carcinogens, and this listing includes and supersedes the listing for cobalt sulf...