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the metal so good at faking silver they named a coin after the disappointment
means A silvery-white metallic element (symbol Ni), or in everyday American speech the five-cent coin made partly from it.
from From the German 'Kupfernickel,' literally 'copper-demon' or 'Old Nick's copper.' Medieval miners in Saxony dug up a reddish ore that looked like copper but stubbornly yielded none — so they blamed it on Nick, a mischievous goblin or the Devil himself. In the 1750s a Swedish chemist isolated the metal hiding in that 'cursed' ore and clipped the name down to 'nickel.' The American five-cent piece earned the nickname in the 1860s once it was minted from a nickel-copper blend.
- named for devil
- German miners blamed Old Nick for fooling them
- five cents
- the US nickel is mostly copper, not nickel
- earth's core
- it's largely a giant nickel-iron sphere
- allergy king
- most common cause of metal allergy worldwide
- magnetic
- one of only four metals magnetic at room temperature
sudbury basin — world's second-largest nickel deposit, ontario canada, produces ~30% of global nickel
pentlandite ore — primary nickel mineral, contains ~34% nickel content by weight
norilsk nickel — largest nickel producer globally, russia, mines ~220,000 tons annually