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To: imardmd1

“Nickle is a chemical name for the element atomic number 28, atomic mass approximately 58.7 grams.”

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20 posted on 06/18/2019 3:00:34 PM PDT by The Antiyuppie (‘When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.’)
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To: The Antiyuppie
If you looked, you will see that I corrected this in the very next post #16, my answer to it.

"Nickel" is the name for the element, and "nickle" is the word for the US coin. The term for the element is a shortened form of the archaic German designation, "kupfernickel" or "Satan's copper." Here "Nick" refers to "Old Nick"--the Devil--thus this element which has many chemical similarities to the element copper, but is much, much harder to win from the minerals and to work as a metal. Shortened for common use, that is just "nickel."

Other references incorrectly attribute this name to other sources, but my memory tells me that I learned this from an early CRC chemical handbook.

45 posted on 06/18/2019 9:21:34 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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