nickel

Nickel is element 28. This topic is part of Chemistry within Science & Nature. This page currently draws on 6 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.

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What is the chemical symbol for nickel?

Answer: Ni

Bonus fact: Nickel is element 28.

A U.S. nickel coin is worth how many cents?

Answer: 5

Bonus fact: The U.S. five-cent coin is commonly called a nickel.

Nickel is commonly added to steel to improve properties such as corrosion resistance and what?

Answer: Toughness

Bonus fact: Nickel is important in many stainless and alloy steels.

Transition metals are found mainly in which central block of the periodic table?

Answer: d-block

Bonus fact: They include iron, copper, nickel, and many others.

Earth's core is made mainly of iron and what other metal?

Answer: Nickel

Bonus fact: Iron dominates both inner and outer core composition.

Which second Whitehead novel also won the Pulitzer Prize?

Answer: The Nickel Boys

Bonus fact: Whitehead became one of the few writers to win two Pulitzers for fiction.

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