Nickel is a transition metal and naturally occurs extensively in the earth’s crust although the majority of it lies within the earth’s core so cannot be mined. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal & is the fifth most common element on earth. Nickel occurs most often with Iron and is commonly found in iron metereorites as the alloys kamacite and taenite.

The bulk of the Nickel mined comes from two types of ore deposits; laterites and magmatic sulphide deposits. Nickel was first classified as a chemical element in 1751.

Chemical Name:
Nickel

Chemical Formula:
Ni

Synonyms
Nickel powder, Nickel flake, Ni, Spherical nano nickel, Conductive nickel, CAS 7440-02-0, Nickel spheres, Nickel flake, nickel foam, Nickel lump, Nickel pieces, Nickel pellets, Nickel slug, Nickel single crystal, Nickel foil, Nickel target, Nickel plate, Nickel gauze, Nickel wire, Nickel rod, Nickel tube, CAS #7440-02-0

Physical Properties
Nickel (Ni) metal powder, spheres, flake, lump, pieces, pellets, slug, single crystal, foil, target, plate, gauze, wire, rod, tube.

Typical Applications
1) Nickel is used in many industrial and consumer products, including stainless steel, magnets, coinage, and special alloys. It is also used for plating and as a green tint in glass. Nickel is pre-eminently an alloy metal, and its chief use is in the nickel steels and nickel cast irons, of which there are innumerable varieties. It is also widely used for many other alloys, such as nickel brasses and bronzes, and alloys with copper, chromium, aluminium, lead, cobalt, silver, and gold.

2) Nickel consumption can be summarized as: nickel steels (60%), nickel-copper alloys and nickel silver (14%), malleable nickel, nickel clad, Inconel and other Superalloys (9%), plating (6%), nickel cast irons (3%), heat and electric resistance alloys, such as Nichrome (3%), nickel brasses and bronzes (2%), others (3%).

3) In the laboratory, nickel is frequently used as a catalyst for hydrogenation, most often using Raney nickel, a finely divided form of the metal.

4) Nickel has also been often used in coins, or occasionally as a substitute for decorative silver. The American ‘nickel’ five-cent coin is 75% copper. The Canadian nickel minted at various periods between 1922-81 was 99.9% nickel, and was magnetic.

• Grade (S)
• Ni-99%, C-0.01%
• Briquette (s):
• Ni —97%min.