General Nickel Information![]() Ni |
![]() Molecular Weight = 58.69 gm |
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Nickel 100.00 % Ni |
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![]() Ni |
![]() In serpentinized ultramafic rocks as a result o flow-temperature hydrothermal activity. |
![]() Approved IMA 1967 |
![]() Bogota, Canala, New Caledonia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data. |
![]() From the German Nickel - "demom", from a contraction of kupfernickel, or "Devil's Copper", as the mineral was believed to contain copper but yielded none when smelted. |
![]() Nickel |
![]() ![]() ICSD 64989 |
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PDF 4-850 |
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Nickel Crystallography![]() a = 3.5238, Z = 4; V = 43.76 Den(Calc)= 8.91 |
![]() Isometric - HexoctahedralH-M Symbol (4/m 3 2/m) Space Group: F m3m |
![]() By Intensity(I/Io): 2.034(1), 1.762(0.42), 1.246(0.21), |
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| Physical Properties of Nickel![]() Gray white, Silvery white. |
![]() 7.8 - 8.2, Average = 8 |
![]() Opaque |
![]() Hackly - Jagged, torn surfaces, (e.g. fractured metals). |
![]() Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix. |
![]() Massive - Uniformly indistinguishable crystals forming large masses. |
![]() 4-5 - Fluorite-Apatite |
![]() Metallic |
![]() grayish white |
| Optical Properties of Nickel![]() White, more bluish than heazlewoodite. |
| Calculated Properties of Nickel![]() Bulk Density (Electron Density)=8.50 gm/cc |
note: Specific Gravity of Nickel =8.91 gm/cc. ![]() Fermion Index = 0.01 |
Boson Index = 0.99 ![]() PENickel = 40.52 barns/electron |
U=PENickel x rElectron Density= 344.52 barns/cc. ![]() GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units) |
Nickel is Not Radioactive | Nickel Classification![]() 01.01.11.05 (01)Native Elements |
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(01.01)with metallic elements other than the platinum group |
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(01.01.11)Iron-Nickel group |
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![]() 01.AA.05 01 - ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides) |
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01.A - Metals and Intermetallic Alloys |
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01.AA -Copper-cupalite family |
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| Other Nickel Information![]() NAME( AntBidBlaNic1) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) OPTIC PROP.(AntBidBlaNic1) |
![]() Links to other databases for Nickel : |
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database 2 - Athena 3 - EUROmin Project 4 - Ecole des Mines de Paris 5 - GeoScienceWorld 6 - Google Images 7 - Google Scholar 8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm) 9 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA) 10 - MinDAT 11 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch) 12 - Online Mineral Museum 13 - QUT Mineral Atlas 14 - Ruff.Info 15 - WWW-MINCRYST Search for Nickel using: Visit our Advertisers for Nickel : A Bijoux Google Search for NickelAdam's Minerals Google Search for Nickel Cape Minerals Google Search for Nickel Dakota Matrix Minerals Google Search for Nickel Excalibur Mineral Corp. Google Search for Nickel Exceptional Minerals Google Search for Nickel John Betts Fine Minerals Search for Nickel McDougall Minerals Google Search for Nickel Mineral News Website Link Rock and Mineral Shows Google Search for Nickel Weinrich Minerals, Inc. Google Search for Nickel Ask about Nickel here : Print or Cut-and-Paste your Nickel Specimen Label here :
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