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NICKEL

FACTS

  • Nickel is mainly used for alloys

  • About 65% of nickel is used to make stainless steel

  • It is usually mixed with chromium 

PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES

  • Atomic mass = 58.71 g

  • Boiling point = 2913 °C

  • Melting point = 1453 °C

  • Silever-white in colour

  • Malleable

  • Corrosion resistant

MINING NICKEL

  • Nickel is mined as ore

  • 23 countries mine nickel and 25 countries smelt nickel

  • Russia, Canada, Australia, and Indonesia are a few of the most important countries that mine nickel

  • Nickel is mainly refined in Norway, Finland, France, and Japan

  • 1.4 million tons of nickel is produced in the world

  • There are many different ways to mine nickel: it all depends on what kind of nickel ore it is

  • There are sometimes other metals in the nickel ore and it has to be extracted

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