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unusual facts about nickel


Neal Menzies

His current research focuses largely on the phytotoxicity of trace metals in soil solutions, giving particular consideration to aluminium and other trace metals such as Pb, Cu, Zn, and Ni.


15 Eunomia

Calcium-rich pyroxenes and olivine, along with nickel-iron metal, have been detected on Eunomia's surface.

Allegheny Technologies

In 2005, Allegheny Ludlum agreed to pay a US$2,375,000 penalty to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, which alleged that Ludlum had unlawfully discharged oil and other pollutants, such as chromium, zinc, copper, and nickel, into the Allegheny and Kiskiminetas rivers in the suburbs of Pittsburgh.

Artificial lift

Piston/Plunger: This is a nickel-metal sprayed steel cylinder that goes inside the barrel.

Bunsenite

It was first described in 1868 for a sample from a hydrothermal nickel-uranium vein from Johanngeorgenstadt, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany and named for German chemist Robert William Eberhard Bunsen (1811–1899).

Cementite

A natural iron carbide (containing minor amounts of nickel and cobalt) occurs in iron meteorites and is called cohenite after the German mineralogist Emil Cohen, who first described it.

Chevrolet Series D

This design had an exposed valvetrain (you could see the pushrods and lifters from the top) with nickel-plated rocker cover, an aluminum water-cooled intake manifold; the starter is in the valley, as is the gear driven generator with the fan clutch coming off of it.

Clydach, Swansea

It also has a Nickel Foam production plan that until recently was the sole provider of the Nickel foam required in the power cells of the Toyota Prius, production has since moved to a plant in China.

Cobalt extraction techniques

The Sherritt process is a hydrometallurgical process named for Sherritt Gordon Mines Ltd. (now Sherritt International) of Sherridon and Lynn Lake Manitoba Canada, based on the older Forward process developed by Dr. Frank Forward for the recovery of copper and nickel from those same mines.

Colt Police Positive

A nickel Police Positive with pearl grips was used by Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey in Death Wish.

Eagle Mine

Eagle mine project, a nickel and copper mine by proposed by the Kennecott Minerals Corporation

Economy of New Caledonia

The Goro Nickel Plant is expected to be one of the largest nickel producing plants on Earth.

Electronic waste

Cadmium: Found in light-sensitive resistors, corrosion-resistant alloys for marine and aviation environments, and nickel-cadmium batteries.

Ernest Henry Nickel

He is best known as an editor of the ninth edition of the Nickel-Strunz classification together with Karl Hugo Strunz.

Fort St. Vrain Generating Station

Further, the PCRV reflected an innovative RPV that had the potential to be substantially less costly than the metallic RPVs then in service, which were made of expensive nickel-manganese superalloys (e.g. Inconel, Hastelloy, and Monel) in the case of PWRs or surgical grade stainless steel 316L in the case of BWRs.

Frank Kasper phases

While addition of refractory elements like W, Mo or Re to FK phases helps to enhance the thermal properties in such alloys as steels or nickel-based super alloys, it increases the risk of unwanted precipitation in intermetallic compounds.

Gaspeite

Gaspeite is an extremely rare nickel carbonate mineral named for the place it was first described, in the Gaspé Peninsula, Canada.

Gerald Welch

Jerry DJ'd the centerpoint of the nation during "Hands Across America" as well as played bass with his band The Silver Nickel Band during the event.

Haudaudine

She had arrived earlier from Yokohama, Japan, in ballast and was loaded for her homeward voyage with 3,042 tons of nickel ore from the Katavite mines bound for Rotterdam, Germany.

Hollow Nickel Case

But it was not until KGB agent Reino Häyhänen (aka Eugene Nicolai Mäki) wanted to defect in May 1957 from Paris, that the FBI was able to link the nickel to KGB agents, including Mikhail Nikolaevich Svirin (a former United Nations employee) and Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher.

Iron group

Newlands' "octaves" (1865) were harshly criticized for separating iron from cobalt and nickel.

Iron Tail

Bee Ho Gray, the famous Wild West performer, accompanied Chief Iron Tail to act as an interpreter and guide to Washington D.C. and New York where Iron Tail modeled for sculptor James Earle Fraser as he worked on designs for the new Buffalo nickel.

Iron Tail is notable in American history for his distinctive profile on the Buffalo nickel or Indian Head nickel of 1913 to 1938.

Jefferson nickel

Production of the Jefferson nickel began at all three mints (Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco), on October 3, 1938.

Kimmage

Older folk often referred to it as a Nickleodeon, which came from the lyrics of a hit song "Music! Music! Music!" ("Put another nickel in, in the Nickelodeon") by the very popular American singer at the time, Teresa Brewer.

L-Tronics

Instead of the two 9V batteries used in the LH-16, the LL-16 employs six of the more commonly available 1.5V alkaline, NiMh, NiCd, or lithium-ion AA batteries.

Lake Matano

Despite Lake Matano's remote location, it is the site of PT Vale Inco Indonesia Tbk (formerly PT. INCO), one of the largest nickel mines in the world, which carries out strip mining in the surrounding rainforest.

Ma'agan Michael

Suron is a factory established by the kibbutz to produce precise metal parts using photochemical etching and electroforming, and also metal plating in gold and nickel.

Military history of Finland during World War II

The main strategic interest of Germany in the region were the nickel mines in the Petsamo area.

Moa, Cuba

Large nickel and cobalt deposits located in the Moa area are exploited in part by joint ventures with the Canadian company Sherritt International.

Nickel defense

The nickel defense was popularized by the Miami Dolphins (Head Coach Don Shula and Defensive Coordinator Bill Arnsparger) in the 1970s and is now commonly employed in obvious passing situations or against a team that frequently uses three wide receiver sets on offense.

The nickel defense originated as an innovation of Philadelphia Eagles defensive coach Jerry Williams in 1960 as a measure to defend against star tight end Mike Ditka of the Chicago Bears.

Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania

The mine closed in 1893 because of competition from the new nickel mines in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.

Nickel–iron battery

Edison's batteries were made from about 1903 to 1972 by the Edison Storage Battery Company in East Orange, NJ.

Nickel–Strunz classification

Nickel–Strunz classification is a scheme for categorizing minerals based upon their chemical composition, introduced by German mineralogist Karl Hugo Strunz (24 February 1910 – 19 April 2006) in his Mineralogische Tabellen (1941).

Nikasil

Suzuki currently uses a race-proven nickel phosphorus-silicon-carbide proprietary coating trademarked SCEM (Suzuki Composite Electro-chemical Material) to maximize cylinder size and improve heat dissipation, e.g., on the engine of the Suzuki TL1000S, V-Strom 650, TU250X and Hayabusa motorcycles.

Rai Coast District

Construction of a nickel processing plant for the Ramu Nickel Project, majority owned by the China Metallurgical Group Corporation, commenced in 2006 in Basamuk Bay, on the Rai Coast between Astrolabe Bay and Saidor.

Raney nickel

Raney nickel is notable for being thermally and structurally stable, as well has having a large BET (Brunauer-Emmett-Teller) surface area.

Robert McClain

After dropping Dunta Robinson, and letting Chris Owens and Brent Grimes walk to the Browns and the Dolphins, respectively, in free agency, McClain will likely reprise his role in this nickel spot behind Asante Samuel and Desmond Trufant in 2013.

Slot machine

From October 2001 to February 2002, columnist Michael Shackleford obtained PAR sheets for five different nickel machines; four IGT games Austin Powers, Fortune Cookie, Leopard Spots and Wheel of Fortune and one game manufactured by WMS; Reel 'em In.

Spherocobaltite

Spherocobaltite was first described in 1877 for an occurrence within cobalt and nickel veins in the St. Daniel Mine of the Schneeberg District, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany.

Telluric iron

Knowing that the Inuit had made tools from the Cape York meteorite, Nordenskiöld assumed that the metal was of meteoric origin, since both contain significant amounts of nickel and both had Widmanstatten structures.

The FBI Story

But it wasn't until a KGB agent, Reino Häyhänen, wanted to defect in May, 1957, would the FBI be able to link the nickel to KGB agents, including Vilyam Genrikhovich Fisher (aka Rudolph Ivanovich Abel) in the Hollow Nickel Case.

The Lighthouse's Tale

A critic for the Houston Chronicle said in an article regarding the release of Why Should the Fire Die? that Nickel Creek once "sung sweetly about foxes and lighthouses", however, two thirds of the characters in "The Lighthouse's Tale" die.

Trevorite

It was first described for an occurrence in the Bon Accord Nickel Deposit, Bon Accord, Barberton, Mpumalanga, South Africa, in 1921 and was named for Major Tudor Gruffydd Trevor (1865–1958) who was a mining inspector in South Africa.

Walter R. Nickel

In 1989 when Dr. Nickel died, then-Senator Pete Wilson eulogized him on the floor of the Senate and placed his obituary in the Congressional Record.

West Shore Railroad

However, William Henry Vanderbilt of the NYC had bought the Nickel Plate in 1882, killing that plan.

Wooden Nickel Records

Wooden Nickel ceased operations after its top act, Styx, signed with A&M Records in 1975.

Zinc–air battery

Cobalt oxide/carbon nanotube hybrid oxygen reduction catalyst and Nickel-iron layered double hydroxide oxygen evolution cathode catalysts exhibited higher catalytic activity and durability in concentrated alkaline electrolytes than precious metal Platinum and Iridium catalysts.

ŽS series 641

First four locomotives were delivered to Yugoslav industry - two to "Đuro Salaj" paper factory from Krško, Slovenia, one to UNIS factory from Vogošća, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and one to Glogovac nickel mine at Kosovo.


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