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Written by
John Campbell Taylor
President, Jan H. Reimers and Associates Inc. (metallurgical consulting engineers), Oakville, Ontario. Editor of or contributor to numerous papers on extraction, smelting, by-product recovery,...
John Campbell Taylor,
Edmund Merriman Wise
Assistant to the Vice President of Research, International Nickel Company, New York City, 1955–61. Author of Palladium: Recovery, Properties, and Uses.
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nickel processing, preparation of the metal for use in various products. Although it is best known for its use in coinage, nickel (Ni) has become much more important for its many industrial applications, which owe their importance to a unique combination of properties. Nickel has a relatively high melting point of 1,453 °C (2,647 °F) and a face-centred cubic crystal structure, which gives the metal good ductility. Nickel alloys exhibit a high resistance to corrosion in a wide variety of media and have the ability to withstand a range of high and low temperatures. In stainless steels, nickel improves the ...(100 of 3037 words)

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