The History of Cobalt — The Goblin Ore Inside Every Battery
3.1K views · Aug 23, 2026 · Education
Comments · 3
@darkangel2347 · 34 seconds ago
Cobalt is the element that put child labor into everybody’s hands and pockets. Now child labor is immortal. It will never be eliminated now.
@BranDublin · 7 days ago
You know this could be great, however everything goes into a knife or a jet engine. The amount of information these series cover is enough to teach a kindergartner, with an attention span of 34 minutes, which is impossible. The smallest of facts are drawn out to keep you on the cell phone to pay for the AI that made it. This is a dumpster fire. What could take you 5 minutes to tell someone now takes 34 minutes. It could teach you engineering of a specific element, what it's thermal properties and densities are and how to quantify those. That's a half hour lesson on each element. Instead humanity has this garbage. It's stuff like this that everyone's praying for the apocalypse for.
@davidjackson2115 · 3 days ago
Always wondered how they got those vibrant colors. Got one on cadium?
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