Nickel

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Science

 

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Jacqueline S

 

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August 27, 2013

 

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University

 

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It has many isotopes; five of them are stable isotopes. They are Ni-58, Ni-60, Ni-61, Ni-62 and Ni-64. Nickel was known to the ancients, but was first purified by a Swedish scientist, Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, in 1751. It was named after kupfernickel, meaning "devil's copper" or "false copper," because although it is essential to the human body, it can be poisonous; overtime exposure to nickel sulfide can cause cancer...
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It was named after kupfernickel, meaning "devil's copper" or "false copper," because although it is essential to the human body, it can be poisonous; overtime exposure to nickel sulfide can cause cancer. Nickel is a good conductor of heat and electricity, and forms mostly greenish/bluish compounds. Nowadays, commercial nickel is extracted mostly from pentlandite (Fe, Ni)9S8, a metallic yellow-brown mineral...
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