Nickel

Nickel is a lustrous, silvery-white metallic element that is solid at room temperature, odorless, and non-volatile, with a melting point of 1455 °C and a boiling point of 2913 °C. It is classified as a transition metal and is typically supplied in forms such as powder, pellets, or ingots. Nickel serves as a key catalyst in hydrogenation, carbonylation, and cross-coupling reactions and is widely used in the production of stainless steel, superalloys, and rechargeable batteries. Its primary application areas include metallurgy, electroplating, electronics, and the manufacture of corrosion-resistant alloys for aerospace, energy, and chemical processing equipment.

The most important applications of nickel metal involve its use in numerous alloys. Such alloys are used to construct various equipment, reaction vessels, plumbing parts, missile, and aerospace components. Such nickel-based alloys include Monel, Inconel, Hastelloy, Nichrome, Duranickel, Udinet, Incoloy and many other alloys under various other trade names. The metal itself has some major uses. Nickel anodes are used for nickel plating of many base metals to enhance their resistance to corrosion. Nickel-plated metals are used in various equipment, machine parts, printing plates, and many household items such as scissors, keys, clips, pins, and decorative pieces. Nickel powder is used as porous electrodes in storage batteries and fuel cells.Another major industrial use of nickel is in catalysis. Nickel and raney nickel are used in catalytic hydrogenation or dehydrogenation of organic compounds including olefins, fats, and oils.
silver white, hard, malleable metal chunks or grey powder

This chemical is included in Basic Chemicals - Lithium Battery Materials. See more about what is Nickel and Nickel SDS information.

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