Nickel Mineral Data

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Nickel Mineral Data

General Nickel Information

Chemical Formula:

Composition:

Molecular Weight = 58.69 gm

Nickel 100.00 % Ni

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100.00 %

Empirical Formula:

Environment:

In serpentinized ultramafic rocks as a result o flow-temperature hydrothermal activity.

IMA Status:

Approved IMA 1967

Locality:

Bogota, Canala, New Caledonia. Link to MinDat.org Location Data.

Name Origin:

From the German Nickel - "demom", from a contraction of kupfernickel, or "Devil's Copper", as the mineral was believed to contain copper but yielded none when smelted.

Name Pronunciation:

Nickel

Synonym:

ICSD 64989

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Nickel Image

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Nickel

Comments: Very small cubic crystal of native Nickel, isolated from an ore concentrate.
Location: NoumÃ©a, New Caledonia. Scale: Crystal size 0.1 mm.
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Nickel Crystallography

Cell Dimensions:

a = 3.5238, Z = 4; V = 43.76 Den(Calc)= 8.91

Crystal System:

Isometric - HexoctahedralH-M Symbol (4/m 3 2/m) Space Group: F m3m

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By Intensity(I/I_o): 2.034(1), 1.762(0.42), 1.246(0.21),

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Wyckoff R W G , Crystal Structures , 1 (1963) p.7-83, Second edition. Interscience Publishers, New York, New York, Cubic closest packed, ccp, structure

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Physical Properties of Nickel

Color:

Gray white, Silvery white.

Density:

7.8 - 8.2, Average = 8

Diaphaneity:

Opaque

Fracture:

Hackly - Jagged, torn surfaces, (e.g. fractured metals).

Habit:

Granular - Generally occurs as anhedral to subhedral crystals in matrix.

Habit:

Massive - Uniformly indistinguishable crystals forming large masses.

Hardness:

4-5 - Fluorite-Apatite

Luster:

Metallic

Streak:

grayish white

Optical Properties of Nickel

RL Color:

White, more bluish than heazlewoodite.

Calculated Properties of Nickel

Electron Density:

Bulk Density (Electron Density)=8.50 gm/cc
note: Specific Gravity of Nickel =8.91 gm/cc.

Fermion Index:

Fermion Index = 0.01
Boson Index = 0.99

Photoelectric:

PE_Nickel= 40.52 barns/electron
U=PE_Nickel x rElectron Density= 344.52 barns/cc.

Radioactivity:

GRapi = 0 (Gamma Ray American Petroleum Institute Units)
Nickel is Not Radioactive

Nickel Classification

Dana Class:

01.01.11.05 (01)Native Elements

(01.01)with metallic elements other than the platinum group

(01.01.11)Iron-Nickel group

01.01.11.00 Iron! Fe I m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.01.11.01 Kamacite? alpha-(Fe,Ni) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.01.11.02 Taenite gamma-(Fe,Ni) F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.01.11.03 Tetrataenite FeNi P 4/mmm 4/m 2/m 2/m

01.01.11.04 Awaruite Ni2FetoNi3Fe P m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.01.11.05 Nickel Ni F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.01.11.06 Wairauite CoFe P m3m 4/m 3 2/m

Strunz Class:

01.AA.05 01 - ELEMENTS (Metals and intermetallic alloys; metalloids and nonmetals; carbides, silicides, nitrides, phosphides)

01.A - Metals and Intermetallic Alloys

01.AA -Copper-cupalite family

01.AA.05 Aluminum Al F m3m,P m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AA.05 Copper Cu F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AA.05 Lead Pb F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AA.05 Gold Au F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AA.05 Nickel Ni F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

01.AA.05 Silver Ag F m3m 4/m 3 2/m

Other Nickel Information

References:

NAME( AntBidBlaNic1) PHYS. PROP.(Enc. of Minerals,2nd ed.,1990) OPTIC PROP.(AntBidBlaNic1)

See Also:

Links to other databases for Nickel :
1 - Am. Min. Crystal Structure Database
2 - Athena
3 - EUROmin Project
4 - Ecole des Mines de Paris
5 - GeoScienceWorld
6 - Google Images
7 - Google Scholar
8 - Handbook of Mineralogy (MinSocAm)
9 - Handbook of Mineralogy (UofA)
10 - MinDAT
11 - Mineralienatlas (Deutsch)
12 - Online Mineral Museum
13 - QUT Mineral Atlas
14 - Ruff.Info
15 - WWW-MINCRYST

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Nickel

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Dana No: 01.01.11.05 Strunz No: 01.AA.05
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