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Nickel
By Chelsea Francisco
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Uses and propties of NICKEL

• Uses of nickel
• Nickel is used primarily for the alloys it forms
• It is used for making stainless steel and many
  other corrosion resistant alloys
• Finely divided nickel is used as a catalyst for
  hydrogenating vegetable oils.
• Nickel is also used in ceramics, magnets, metals
  to and batteries
• When added to glass, nickel gives a green color.
  
• Copper-nickel alloy tubing is used in
  desalination plants

• Propties of nickel
• The melting point of nickel is 1453C,
• the boiling point of nickel is 2732C
• Nickel is a silvery white metal that takes a high
  polish
• Nickel is hard, ductile, malleable, and somewhat
  ferromagnetic
• It is a fair conductor of heat and electricity.
  
• Some nickel compounds (nickel carbonyl, nickel
  sulfide) are considered to be highly toxic or
  carcinogenic

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Facts About Nickel

• Nickels word origin is German Nickel Satan or
  Old Nick, also Old Nick's copper.
• You can find nickel in batteries, ceramics, and
  magnets.
• Found by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
• Found in Sweden the year was in1751
• Nickel is a fairly good conductor of heat and
  electricity
• Nickel dissolves slowly in dilute acids but,
  like iron, becomes passive when treated with
  nitric acid.
• Finely divided nickel adsorbs hydrogen

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A song about nickeltheme song to The Brady
Bunch

• Heres a story of the element nickel
• It is mostly in batteries and magnets
• All of nickel dissolves very slowly
• in dilute acids
• The element nickel the element nickel
• Thats the way it became the element nickel

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Resources

• http//www.chemicool.com
• http//chemistry.about.com/library/blper5.htm
• http//education.yahoo.com/reference/encyclopedia/
  entry/nickel
• http//www.webelements.com/webelements/scholar/ele
  ments/periodic-table/uses.html

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