Nickel Mineral Data

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General Nickel Information

Chemical Formula:

Composition:

Molecular Weight = 58.69 gm

Nickel 100.00 % Ni

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100.00 %

Empirical Formula:

Environment:

In serpentinized ultramafic rocks as a result o flow-temperature hydrothermal activity.

IMA Status:

Approved IMA 1967

Locality:

Bogota, Canala, New Caledonia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.

Name Origin:

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.

Synonym:

ICSD 64989

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Nickel Image

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Nickel

Comments: Very small cubic crystal of native Nickel, isolated from an ore concentrate.
Location: Noum?a, New Caledonia. Scale: Crystal size 0.1 mm.
© Thomas Witzke / Abraxas-Verlag

Nickel Crystallography

Cell Dimensions:

a = 3.5238, Z = 4; V = 43.76 Den(Calc)= 8.91

Crystal System:

Isometric - HexoctahedralH-M Symbol (4/m 3 2/m) Space Group: F m3m

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By Intensity(I/I_o): 2.034(1), 1.762(0.42), 1.246(0.21),

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Wyckoff R W G , Crystal Structures , 1 (1963) p.7-83, Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York, Cubic closest packed, ccp, structure

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Physical Properties of Nickel

Color:

Gray white, Silvery white.

Density:

7.8 - 8.2, Average = 8

Diaphaniety:

Opaque

Fracture:

Hackly - Jagged, torn surfaces, (e.g. fractured metals).

Habit:

Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix.

Habit:

Massive - Uniformly indistinguishable crystals forming large masses.

Hardness:

4-5 - Fluorite-Apatite

Luster:

Metallic

Streak:

grayish white

Optical Properties of Nickel

RL Color:

White, more bluish than heazlewoodite.

Calculated Properties of Nickel

Electron Density:

r_electron=8.50 gm/cc
note: r_Nickel=8.91 gm/cc.

Fermion Index

Fermion Index = 0.0113
Boson Index = 0.9887

Photoelectric:

PE_Nickel= 40.52 barns/electron
U=PE_Nickel x r_electron= 344.52 barns/cc.

Radioactivity:

GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)

Nickel is Not Radioactive

Nickel Classification

Dana Class:

1.1.11.5 (1)Native Elements

(1.1)with metallic elements other than the platinum group

(1.1.11)Iron-Nickel group

1.1.11.0 Iron! Fe I m3m 4/m 3 2/m

1.1.11.1 Kamacite alpha-(Fe,Ni) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

1.1.11.2 Taenite gamma-(Fe,Ni) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

1.1.11.3 Tetrataenite FeNi P 4/mmm 4/m 2/m 2/m

1.1.11.4 Awaruite Ni2FetoNi3Fe P m3m 4/m 3 2/m

1.1.11.5 Nickel Ni F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

1.1.11.6 Wairauite CoFe P m3m 4/m 3 2/m

Strunz Class:

I/A.08-10 I - Elements

I/A - Metallic and intermetallic compounds, Carbides, Nitrides, Phosphides and Silicides

I/A.08 - Nickel series

I/A.08-10 Nickel Ni F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

I/A.08-20 Taenite gamma-(Fe,Ni) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

I/A.08-30 Tetrataenite FeNi P 4/mmm 4/m 2/m 2/m

I/A.08-40 Awaruite Ni2FetoNi3Fe P m3m 4/m 3 2/m

I/A.08-50 Jedwabite! Fe7(Ta,Nb)3 P 6₃mmc, P 6₃mc 6mm

Other Nickel Information

References:

NAME( AntBidBlaNic1) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) OPTIC PROP.(AntBidBlaNic1)

See Also:

Links to other databases for Nickel :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Athena
3 - EUROmin Project
4 - Ecole des Mines de Paris
5 - Google Images
6 - Google Scholar
7 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm)
8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA)
9 - MinDAT
10 - MinMax(Deutsch)
11 - MinMax(English)
12 - Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom
13 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
14 - QUT Mineral Atlas
15 - Ruff.Info
16 - WWW-MINCRYST

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Dana No: 1.1.11.5 Strunz No: I/A.08-10
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