ChEBI: Cobalt dinitrate is a cobalt salt in which the cobalt metal is in the +2 oxidation state and the counter-anion is nitrate. It is an inorganic nitrate salt and a cobalt salt. It contains a cobalt(2+).
Preparation
The anhydrous nitrate can, however, be obtained by condensation of dinitrogen pentoxide onto a solution of the hydrated nitrate in nitric acid, or by dissolution of cobalt in a mixture of equal volumes of dinitrogen tetroxide and ethyl acetate.
