The Element Nickel

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The element Nickel’s symbol is Ni. The atomic number is 28 and the atomic mass is 58.6934. There are 14 known isotopes of nickel, 5 stable and 9 unstable. Nickel is primarily used in gas turbines and rocket engines. The boiling point is 2913 C and the melting point is 1455 C. The color of Nickel is almost silver. Nickel is a conductor of electricity and heat. Nickel is metallic.
A Swedish chemist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovered nickel. It was discovered in the city of Stockholm, Sweden in 1751. Nickel is a hard metal and its used in vegetable oils. If you were to add nickel to a piece of glass, the glass would turn the color green. Nickel is made in coins and batteries. For example, the US five cent is called nickel, even though the coin only contains 25% of nickel. Nickel is an essential element for such plants as it is used for baked beans. Nickel is mixed with many other metals Nickel is combined with steel to make suck things as an armor plate, vaults and machine parts. It is joined with copper to make pipes that are used in plants.


“Very powerful permanent magnets, known as Alnico magnets, can be made from an alloy of aluminum, nickel, cobalt and iron” (Gagnon). Most of the world’s supply of Nickel is mined in Ontario, Canada. But it can also be found in Australia, Cuba and Indonesia. As you can see that Nickel is essential in every day life when it comes to plants, coins, batteries and magnets....