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Niccolum Nickel
Nikkel – Nickel – Nickel – Níquel – ニッケル – Никель – 鎳
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Nikkel AfrikaansNikkel Danish Nickel German Nickel English Nikkul Faroese Nikkel Frisian (West) Nikull Icelandic Nickel Luxembourgish Nikkel Dutch Nikkel Norwegian Nickel Swedish Italic
Níquel AragoneseNichelu Aromanian Níquel Asturian Níquel Catalan Níquel Spanish Nickel French Nichel Friulian Níquel Galician Nichelio Italian Níchel Lombard Niquèl Occitan Níquel Portuguese Nichel Romanian - Moldovan Slavic
Никел [Nikel] BulgarianNikl, ²Nikal Bosnian Нікель [nikel'] Belarusian Nikl, Pochvistík Czech Nikal Croatian Nikel Kashubian Никел [Nikel] Macedonian Nikiel Polish Никель [Nikel'] Russian Nikel Slovak Nikelj Slovenian Никал [Nikal] Serbian Нікель [nikel'] Ukrainian Baltic
Nikelis LithuanianNiķelis Latvian Nėkelis Samogitian Celtic
Nikel BretonNicel Welsh Nicil Gaelic (Irish) Nicil Gaelic (Scottish) Nickyl Gaelic (Manx) Nykel Cornish Other Indo-European
Νικελιο [nikelio] GreekՆիկել [nikel] Armenian Nikel, ²Nikli Albanian Indo-Iranian/Iranian
Nîkel KurdishЗгъæры мыггаг [zg"æry myggag] Ossetian Никел [Nikel] Tajik Indo-Iranian/Indo-Aryan
নিকেল [nikela] Bengaliنیکل [nykl] Persian નિકલનો [nikalano] Gujarati निकेल [nikela] Hindi Finno-Ugric
Nikkel EstonianNikkeli Finnish Nikkel Hungarian Никель [Nikel'] Komi Никель [Nikel'] Mari Никиль [nikilj] Moksha Nikli Võro Altaic
Nikel AzerbaijaniНикель [Nikel'] Chuvash Никель [nikel'] Kazakh Никель [Nikel'] Kyrgyz Никель [nikel'] Mongolian Nikel Turkish نىكېل [nikel] Uyghur Nikel Uzbek Other (Europe)
Nikela Basqueნიკელი [nikeli] Georgian Afro-Asiatic
نيكل [nīkil] Arabicניקל [nikel] Hebrew Nikil Maltese Sino-Tibetan
Ngiap (鎳) Hakkaニッケル [nikkeru] Japanese 니켈 [nikel] Korean นิกเกิล [nikkoen] Thai Nikel Vietnamese 鎳 [nie4 / nip7] Chinese Malayo-Polynesian
Nikel CebuanoNikel Indonesian Konukōreko Māori Nikel Malay Other Asiatic
നിക്കല് [nikkal] Malayalamநிக்கல் [nikkal] Tamil Africa
Nikɛ́li LingalaNikele Sesotho Nikeli Swahili North-America
Iztāctepoztli NahuatlSouth-America
Nikil QuechuaCreole
Niklimi Sranan TongoArtificial
Nikelo EsperantoNew names
Niqel Atomic ElementsMagnasilver Dorseyville |
History & Etymology
Naturally occurring nickel-copper alloys, called paktong, were used in China over 2000 years ago. In 235 BC, coins in China were minted from nickel. Saxon miners were familiar with the reddish-coloured ore, a combination of arsenic and nickel (niccolite, NiAs), which superficially resembles Cu2O. These miners attributed their inability to extract copper from this source to the work of the devil and named the ore Kupfernickel (in Swedish kopparnickel). Originally it was a term of abuse used by the miners in the Erzgebirge (Ore Mountains), who searching for Silver found this "inferior" metal. The word is derived from Kupfer = Copper and Nickel = demon, goblin, rascal (a pet form of the name Nikolaus [Nicholas], hence Old Nick "the devil"). Thus kupfernickel - Latinized as Cuprum Nicolai - can be translated as "old Nick's Copper" (or "Devil's Copper").
In 1751 the Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722-1765) isolated an impure metal from ores from a "loser Koboltgruben" in the parish of Färlinga in Hälsingland (Sweden), probably Gersdorffite (NiAsS). He identified in it a new half-metal. A few years later, he found out that his half-metal was identical with the metallic component of Kupfernickel, sent to him from Germany. For the new half-metal he chose to retain the name Kupfernickel, or shortly Nickel, until it was sure it was a new metal. His results were confirmed by Torbern Olof Bergman in 1775 (note). Like all metals, Nickel was not considered an element until Antoine Lavoisier (1743-1794) proposed his new chemistry.
Alternative name
The American 5-cent coin is called "nickel", but is made of 75% Copper and only 25% Nickel (see: US Buffalo Nickel and the First Nickel Coin).
Chemistianity 1873
RTYAN
NICKEL, the lustrous metal in German Silver, Is a white, tough, malleable metal, Strongly magnetic when cold. Some hydrated Nickel Salts have bright emerald green hue: The anhydrous Salts have a yellow hue. Nickel is found in moderate abundance Combined with Arsenic as Kupfernickel, And with Cobalt in Speiss, in Germany And Sweden. Some Meteorites contain Nickel. Further reading
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