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Nickel Mineral Data + |
General Nickel Information |
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| Ni | |||
| Molecular Weight = 58.69 gm | |||
| Nickel 100.00 % Ni | |||
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| 100.00 % | |||
| 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. | |||
| ICSD 64989 | |||
| PDF 4-850 | |||
Nickel Image | |||
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Nickel Crystallography |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| White, more bluish than heazlewoodite. | |||
Calculated Properties of Nickel |
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relectron=8.50 gm/cc |
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| Fermion Index = 0.0113 Boson Index = 0.9887 |
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PENickel = 40.52 barns/electron |
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| GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units) Nickel is Not Radioactive |
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Nickel Classification |
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| 1.1.11.5 (1)Native Elements | |||
| (1.1)with metallic elements other than the platinum group | |||
| (1.1.11)Iron-Nickel group | |||
| I/A.08-10 I - Elements | |||
| I/A - Metallic and intermetallic compounds, Carbides, Nitrides, Phosphides and Silicides | |||
| I/A.08 - Nickel series | |||
Other Nickel Information |
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| 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 - 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 Search for Nickel using: Visit our Advertisers for Nickel : AA Mineral SpecimensB & L Fine Minerals Dan Weinrich Fine Minerals Dan Weinrich Auctions Excalibur Minerals Exceptional Minerals Fabre Minerals Greenside Minerals Heliodor John Betts Fine Minerals Mason's Minerals Mineral News Mineral of the Month Club MineralsWeb Fine Minerals The GeoZone Wrights Rock Shop Translate Nickel Mineral Data : Ask about Nickel here : Print or Cut-and-Paste your Nickel Specimen Label here :
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