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Nickel

Year of discovery: 1967 (Bogota, New Caledonia), 2000 (Japan)

Locality list: 2 localities of nickel

• Ni

• Class: Iron group
• Class: Native elements

• Polymorph: Taenite (Cubic)

• Ni => Os: Osmium
• Ni => Pt: Platinum
• Ni => Pd: Palladium
• Ni => Rh: Rhodium
• Ni => Ru: Ruthenium
• Ni => Ir: Iridium, Rutheniridosmine
• Ni => Fe: Iron, Hexaferrum

• Ni₂ => FeNi: Tetrataenite
• Ni₂ => CoFe: Wairauite

• Ni₄ => Ni₃Fe: Awaruite

• Color: Silver white
• Streak: Gray
• Luster: Metallic
• Diaphaneity: Opaque

• Habit: Cubic
• Aggregate: Intergrows with heazlewoodite
• Twin: {111}

• Hardness: 3.5
• Density: 8.0

• System: Cubic
• Group: m3m, Fm3m
• Lattice: a=3.5

Etymology: Nickel, German demon because it was called as kupfernickel (Devil's copper)

Synonym: Native nickel