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nickel
nickel metallic chemical element; symbol Ni; at. no. 28; at. wt. 58.69; m.p. about 1,453°C; b.p. about 2,732°C; sp. gr. 8.902 at 25°C; valence 0, +1, +2, +3, or +4. Nickel is a hard, malleable, ductile, lustrous, silver-white metal with a face-centered cubic crystalline structure. It... Read more |
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Ni
Ni symbol for the element nickel .... Read more |
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Ludwig Mond
Ludwig Mond 1839-1909, chemist; father of Alfred Moritz Mond. He was born in Germany and became a naturalized British subject. Mond experimented with alkalies and also developed a producer gas known by his name. He was cofounder and director of Brunner-Mond (1872), which became the world's largest... Read more |
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pentlandite
pentlandite , yellowish-bronze, opaque mineral, a sulfide of iron and nickel, (Fe,Ni) 9 S 8 . It is found in masses nearly always associated with the iron sulfide pyrrhotite. The largest deposit of this important ore of nickel is at Sudbury, Ont. Important deposits are mined in Manitoba, Russia, and... Read more |
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pyrrhotite
pyrrhotite or magnetic pyrites, bronze-yellow to bronze-red mineral, a sulfide of iron sometimes containing nickel. It tarnishes easily and is somewhat magnetic. It crystallizes in the hexagonal system, but appears usually in massive form, and occurs chiefly in basic igneous rocks. In some... Read more |
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RestaurantBar
Restaurant/Bar BUSINESS PLAN THE PLUGGED NICKEL BAR 772 S. Cassopolis Detroit MI 48222 April 1995 This business plan for a bar with entertainment highlights the advantages and cost benefits of an owner-managed business. The proposed business is... Read more |
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Nonferrous metal industries
NONFERROUS METALS NONFERROUS METALS. Other than tin and nickel, the United States produces in commercial quantities all the major nonferrous metals, which include aluminum, copper, lead, and zinc. Since 1993, no tin mines have operated in the United States, and China and Indonesia together... Read more |
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Kalgoorlie
Kalgoorlie , town (1991 pop. 25,016), Western Australia, SW Australia. It is the chief mining town of the state and the center of the East Coolgardie Goldfield. Gold was found at nearby Coolgardie in 1892; nickel is also mined. The Western Australia School of Mines (1902) was transferred (1903) from... Read more |
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Sudbury
Sudbury city (1991 pop. 92,884), central Ont., Canada. It is the center of Canada's largest mining region, which produces much of the world's nickel and large quantities of copper, platinum, gold, silver, cobalt, and sulfur. Laurentian Univ. (1960) is there.... Read more |
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Tati
Tati , region, c.2,070 sq mi (5,360 sq km), NE Botswana. Nickel, copper, asbestos, and manganese are mined in the region. Tati was a source of gold for centuries; mining ceased there in the early 1960s.... Read more |
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iron–nickel deposits
iron–nickel deposits Nickel and iron are important elements used in a variety of everyday materials. Both are important constituents of stainless steel, where nickel, for example, gives the steel strength and anti-corrosion properties... |
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nickel deposits
nickel deposits see iron–nickel deposits |
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nickel
nickel (symbol Ni) Silvery-white metallic element, one of the transition elements...chief ores are pentlandite and niccolite. Hard, malleable and ductile, nickel is used in stainless steels, other special alloys, coinage, cutlery, storage... |
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manganese nodules
...also to contain small amounts of copper, nickel, cobalt, and other minerals.Manganese...combined contents of copper, cobalt, and nickel of several per cent by weight. It was...manganese dioxide. Copper, cobalt, and nickel are not present in the nodules as separate... |
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supergene and residual deposits
...in supergene deposits include gold, silver, nickel, manganese, and uranium. Surface exposures...and goethite. If an ultramafic rock rich in nickel undergoes such a process, a nickel laterite is formed. These nickel laterites are... |
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alloys
...with silicon and small amounts of iron, nickel, manganeseTelegraph wiresBell metalCopper...cupronickel)55% copper, 27% zinc, 18% nickel‘Silver’ coinsSteel99% iron, 1...27% chromium or 20% tungsten or 15% nickel and lesser amounts of other elementsCutlery... |
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magnetic field (origin of the Earth's internal field)
...from convective fluid motions of the highly conducting iron– nickel alloy of which the core is made. Even though the fluid motions...may have been supplied by the Sun when the metallic iron–nickel core first formed within the Earth. Since that time the geometry... |
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core
...solid core occurs because of immense pressure conditions. The core is thought to be composed of iron-nickel alloy (90% iron, 10% nickel). Temperature estimates for the core vary from 4000 to 7000°C (7200–12,600°F). Convection... |
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trace elements
...series (scandium, vanadium, chromium, manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper, and zinc). The second, more empirical classification...groundwater and soil by trace elements (e.g. lead, cadmium, nickel, and zinc), but also in order to monitor environmental conditions... |
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asteroids and comets
...early melting events among the larger asteroids. Iron meteorites are distinctive in appearance. They consist of alloys of nickel and iron, and are taken to represent samples of the core of a large asteroid that was broken apart by a collision. Stony... |
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nickel
nickel hard silvery-white lustrous mineral. XVIII. shortening of G. kupfernickel ‘copper nickel’ (mining name of the copper-coloured...which the metal was first obtained); -nickel app. = nickel dwarf, mischievous demon... |
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nickel-and-dime
...by charging small amounts for many minor services: we don't nickel-and-dime our customers like some vendors that charge extra for...of little importance; petty: the only games this weekend are nickel-and-dime stuff. |
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nickel–iron meteorite
nickel–iron meteorite See iron meteorite. |
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ataxite
ataxite A class of iron meteorite which is nickel-rich, containing more than 12% nickel. The ataxites contain discrete spindles of kamacite (a nickel-poor iron–nickel alloy), fringed by taenite (up to 50% nickel... |
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millerite
...fibres in cavities, and as replacement for other nickel minerals, also in veins carrying nickel minerals and other sulphides, and around some...sublimation products. It is a minor ore of nickel and named after the British mineralogist W... |
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M-shape
...shape shown in an analysis profile of nickel distribution in Widmanstätten structure...temperature-dependence of the diffusion of nickel within the metal phase away from kamacite...in kamacite, leads to disequilibrium nickel distribution and the M-shape. |
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octahedrite
...iron meteorite, containing 6–12% nickel. The meteorite that formed Meteor Crater...octahedrite. In addition to having a greater nickel content than hexahedrites, octahedrites...additional mineral, taenite, which is nickel-rich. Octahedrite meteorites have a... |
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bulk composition of Earth
...information from seismic surveys, and the existence of iron—nickel meteorites lead to the conclusion that the core is predominantly...with a small proportion of lower-density element(s). Nickel is largely excluded because it would make the core too dense... |
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ferromagnetism
...single volume element, all electron-spin vectors are in the same direction. Typical materials are pure iron, nickel, and iron-nickel alloys found in meteorites and lunar samples. See also FERRIMAGNETISM; andANTIFERROMAGNETISM. |
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iron meteorite
iron meteorite A meteorite composed primarily of nickel–iron; also known as a siderite. Some iron meteorites...three main subgroups on the basis of the structure of their nickel–iron alloy: hexahedrites, octahedrites (six types... |
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coin
coin • noun 1. need a coin for the machine | gold coinssynonyms: token, piece; dime, nickel, quarter, penny, half dollar. 2. pay in coinsynonyms: coins, coinage, change, specie, silver, copper, gold. |
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metal
metal • noun See table.Metals and Alloys aluminum antimony brass bronze cast iron chrome steel chromium copper cupronickel gold gunmetal iron iridium lead magnesium mercury nickel pewter platinum silver solder stainless steel steel tin titanium tungsten uranium white gold zinc |
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piddling
...inconsequential, inconsiderable, negligible; meager, inadequate, insufficient, paltry, scant, scanty, derisory, pitiful, miserable, puny, niggardly, beggarly, mere; informal measly, pathetic, piffling, mingy, nickel-and-dime. |
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trivial
...pettifogging, footling, small, slight, little, inconsiderable, negligible, paltry, nugatory; informal piddling, picayune, nickel-and-dime, penny-ante; trademark Mickey Mouse.antonyms: important, significant, life-and-death. 2. I used... |
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minor
...unimportant, insignificant, inconsequential, inconsiderable, subsidiary, negligible, trivial, trifling, paltry, petty, nickel-and-dime; informal piffling, piddling.antonym: major. 2. a minor poet synonyms: little known, unknown, lesser... |
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worthless
...poor quality, inferior, second-rate, third-rate, low-grade, cheap, shoddy, tawdry, cheesy; informal crummy, nickel-and-dime.antonyms: valuable, precious. 2. his conclusions are worthless synonyms: useless, (of) no use, ineffective... |
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Nickel Plating Primer.
The basics on nickel plating ... Any introductory course starts out...According to a technical report of the International Nickel Co., Ltd., Joseph Shore applied for a patent for nickel plating in 1840; however, it was not until 1842... |
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Nickel Plating.
Why Nickel Plate? Nickel is electrodeposited (plated) for many reasons. First and foremost nickel provides a decorative appearance because of its ability to cover imperfections in the base metal (leveling). This deposit can be made brilliant... |
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Nickel Market Review 2010 Now Available at MarketPublishers.com.
...to Russian exports, a 56,000 tonnes nickel deficit may occur on the Russian market...are signs of a recovery in demand for nickel from the industrial sector. The demand...increasing. However, some large producers of nickel, like BHP Billiton, have stopped production... |
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Norilsk Nickel and LionOre Announce That They Have Entered into a Support...
...15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- OJSC MMC Norilsk Nickel ("Norilsk Nickel") and LionOre Mining International Ltd. ("LionOre...into a support agreement in connection with Norilsk Nickel's previously announced offer to acquire all of LionOre... |
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Nickel is named contact allergen of the year.(Clinical Rounds)
...Contact Dermatitis Society has proclaimed nickel as its 2008 Allergen of the Year because...children. "With the rising incidence of nickel allergy in the United States and elsewhere, high nickel sensitization rates documented in children... |
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Nickel ENMs activate HIF-1[alpha].(NANOMATERIALS)(engineered nanomaterials...
The health record of nickel, a known carcinogen, is far from shiny...with the discovery that nano-scale nickel triggers a cellular pathway linked to...applications in numerous fields. (2) Nickel nanoparticles are used in catalysts... |
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Nickels bows out; spotlight shifts to Mallahan, McGinn.(Politics)
...prospects dimming by the day, Mayor Greg Nickels conceded Friday morning that he had lost...There were no tears, no regrets, and Nickels frequently poked fun at himself . But...have spent months attacking the unpopular Nickels. Now that he has bowed out of the race... |
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Nickel Now
...the Middle East and copper is to Chile, nickel could be for the Philippines. The late...Japanese and Australian requirements has made nickel a key component of the Philippine mining revival. In 2006, nickel exports saw a 1,288% increase. 2007... |
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Nickel Carcinogenicity in Relation to the Health Risks from Residual Oil Fly Ash
...Epidemiological studies of workers in the nickel industry, animal exposure studies, and reports on the potential mechanisms of nickel-induced toxicity and carcinogenicity indicate that only crystalline sulfidic nickel compounds have been clearly established... |
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NICKELS REFOCUSES ON BASIC SERVICES POLICE, FIRE PROTECTION AMONG THE ITEMS...
...On his 28th day in office, Mayor Greg Nickels yesterday unveiled a much-anticipated...congestion. Echoing campaign promises, Nickels pledged to refocus City Hall's attention...bridging divisions among the city's races - Nickels' agenda represented a shift from the... |
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