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Nickel


n.

A bright silver-white metallic element of atomic number 28. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite , with arsenic in the mineral niccolite , and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance . Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.70.


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