nickel
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Summary
nickel is a chemical element[1]. nickel draws 12,939 Wikipedia views per month (chemical element category, ranking #42 of 144).[2]
Key Facts
- Discoverer or inventor: Axel Fredrik Cronstedt[3]
- Named after: nickeline[4]
- Made from material: phosphocyclite-(Ni)[5], paratacamite-(Ni)[6], tetrahedrite-(Ni)[7], tennantite-(Ni)[8], garnierite mineral group[9], pentlandite[10], pyrrhotite[11], millerite[12], nickeline[13]
- Canonical SMILES: [Ni][14]
- Element symbol: Ni[15]
- Chemical formula: Ni[16]
- Subclass of: allergen[17], metal[18], ferromagnetic material[19], flammable solid[20], d-block[21]
- Part of: period 4[22], group 10[23], transition metal[24]
- Commons category: Nickel[25]
- Unicode character: 鎳[26]
- Crystal system: face-centered cubic[27]
- Time of discovery or invention: 1751[28]
- Point group: cubic-hexoctahedral[29]
- Space group: space group Fm-3m[30]
- Found in taxon: Ludwigia repens[31]
- Topic's main category: Category:Nickel[32]
- Commons gallery: Nickel[33]
- Atomic number: 28[34]
- Mohs' hardness: 4.0[35]
- Electronegativity: 1.91[36]
- Oxidation state: -1[37], 1[38], 2[39], 3[40], 4[41], -2[42], 0[43]
- Described by source: Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia[44], Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[45], New Encyclopedic Dictionary[46], Nickel[47], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[48], Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[49]
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Influence
Things named for nickel include Nikel[50], an administrative divisions of Russia[51], in Russia[52], founded in 1936[53]; nickeline[54], a mineral species[55]; ferronickelplatinum[56], a mineral species[57]; nickelskutterudite[58], a mineral species[59]; nickelblödite[60], a mineral species[61]; nickellotharmeyerite[62], a mineral species[63]; nickelschneebergite[64], a mineral species[65]; and nickelhexahydrite[66], a mineral species[67].
Why It Matters
nickel has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[68] nickel is known by 64 alternative names across languages and contexts.[69]
Entities named for nickel include Nikel[50], an administrative divisions of Russia[51], in Russia[52], founded in 1936[53]; nickeline[54], a mineral species[55]; ferronickelplatinum[56], a mineral species[57]; nickelskutterudite[58], a mineral species[59]; nickelblödite[60], a mineral species[61]; and nickellotharmeyerite[62], a mineral species[63].