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Donald

Mill Valley Middle School

Marin County

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Nickel is extensivly usedfor making stainless steeland other corrosin resistant alloys such as invar and monel.

Nickel is gotton comercially from pentlandite of the Sudbury region of ontario, where about thirty percent of the worlds nickel comes from. Other commercial suppliers of nickel are found in Austraila and Cuba.Nickel is found in most meteortites and serves as one of the criterias for distiguishing a meteorite from other minerals. Iron meteorites can contain iron alloyed with from five to twenty percent nickel.

Glossary

Kupfernickel:a german based word meaning false copper.

alex cronstedt: the discoverer of the element nickel.

Ontario: A city in canada in which nickel is obtained comercially

Bibliography