Cronstedt, Axel Fredrik

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Nickel - the atomic number is 28 and the chemical symbol is Ni. The name derives from the German nickel for deceptive little spirit , since miners called mineral niccolite (NLAs) by the name kupfemickel (false copper) because it resembled copper ores in appearance but no copper was found in the ore. It was discovered by the Swedish metallurgist Axel-Fredrik Cronstedt in 1751. 

On his way home from the Netherlands he studied mining and metallurgy in the Harz, and in 1727 he was placed in charged of the chemical laboratory at the Bureau of Mines in Stockholm, which was then in poor financial condition. After the laboratory was sold, Brandt and his students Henrik Teofil Scheffer and Axel Fredrik Cronstedt carried on their epoch-making researches at the Royal Mint, and in 1730 Brandt became assay master of the Mint. Three years later he published a systematic investigation of arsenic and its compounds in which he showed that arsenic is a semi-metal and that white arsenic [arsenious oxide] is its calx (35). 

Birth of Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, the discoverer of nickel, in Sodermanland, Sweden. 

Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722-1765) was the first person to realize that nickel was a new element. In 1751, he was given a new mineral from a cobalt mine near the town of H singland, Sweden. While Cronstedt thought the ore might contain cobalt or copper, his tests produced a surprising result. He found something in the mineral that did not act like cobalt, copper, or any other known element. Cronstedt announced that he had found a new element. He used a shortened version of Kupfernickel for the name of the new element. He called it nickel. 

Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovers nickel. 

Nickel is a silver-white, lustrous metal. It was first isolated by Swedish chemist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt in 1751. Cronstedt had been attempting to isolate copper from a mineral called niccolite (the German word kupfer-nickel means Devil s copper or Qld Nick s copper ). He instead found nickel, which he named after the mineral. 

Probably Anton von Swab (1702-1768) was the first to use the technique, but it was Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722-1765) who first used the blowpipe for systematic mineral investigations. He also had an own shape of pipe. It was provided with a bulb for collection of saliva that otherwise disturbed reactions and observations (Figure 10.2). 

I do not mean the ordinary lead ore that is available in the pharmacies. The stuff I investigated is quite different from that. It is instead the mineral that Axel Fredrik Cronstedt called molybdcena membranacea nitens in his Mineralogy and with which Mr Qvist and others probably made their experiments. 

Discovery Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovered the element in 1751 in a cobalt mine at Loos in Helsingland in central Sweden. 

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt through his discovery not only founded an industry but also a modern technology. Without nickel there would be no jet aircraft, no chemical industry as we understand it today, no possibilities of space flight and no moon landings. 

Axel Fredrik Cronstedt - a remarkable man What was his background and how did he accomplish his success ... 

The Chinese were pioneers in the manufacture and utihzation of nickel alloys. But they did not discover the element nickel. That discovery was made by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt. 

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