Nickel ferromagnetism

Nickel is well-known as an essential alloying element in stainless steels, Ni-Cu alloys, Ni-Fe alloys, Ni-Cr-Fe alloys, super alloys, as nickel-chromium alloys and special corrosion-resistant and high temperature alloys. Nickel ferromagnetic with a density of 8.9 g/cm. It is ductile and malleable like steel. Nickel alloys are well-knovm for their high temperature strength and good resistance to corrosion. 

Nickel is silvery white and takes on a high polish. It is hard, malleable, ductile, somewhat ferromagnetic, and a fair conductor of heat and electricity. It belongs to the iron-cobalt group of metals and is chiefly valuable for the alloys it forms. 

The work on iron-nickel alloys has described shock-compression measurements of the compressibility of fee 28.5-at. % Ni Fe that show a well defined, pressure-induced, second-order ferromagnetic to paramagnetic transition. From these measurements, a complete description is obtained of the thermodynamic variables that change at the transition. The results provide a more complete description of the thermodynamic effects of the change in the magnetic interactions with pressure than has been previously available. The work demonstrates how shock compression can be used as an explicit, quantitative tool for the study of pressure sensitive magnetic interactions. 

Nickel is ferromagnetic, but less markedly so that either iron or cobalt and its Curie point (375°C) is also lower. 

Nickel normally crystallises in the f.c.c. structure it undergoes a magnetic transformation at 357°C and is ferromagnetic below that temperature. In all the alloys shown in Table 4.21 the f.c.c. (austenitic) structure is substantially retained, and in consequence most of the alloys possess the combination of properties required of materials for widespread industrial acceptability, i.e. tensile strength, ductility, impact strength, hardness, hot and cold workability, machinability and fabrication. 

The values for the atomic saturation magnetization at the absolute zero, ferromagnetic metals iron, cobalt, and nickel are 2.22, 1.71, and 0.61 Bohr magnetons per atom, respectively.9 These numbers are the average numbers of unpaired electron spins in the metals (the approximation of the g factor to 2 found in gyromagnetic experiments shows that the orbital moment is nearly completely quenched, as in complex ions containing the transition elements). 

Nickel is a ductile, malleable and ferromagnetic metal. Its properties are summarized in Table 6.7. 

Nickel is a malleable, ductile, tenacious, slightly magnetic, silvery white metal, which conducts heat and electricity fairly well. It is ferromagnetic at ordinary temperatures but becomes paramagnetic at elevated temperatures. Nickel is closely related in chemical properties to iron and cobalt. While sulphidic sources of nickel account for the world s major nickel supplies, it may be pointed out that lateritic nickel deposits (which essentially constitute an oxidic source of the metal) are more extensive than the sulphidic sources. 

In their demagnetized states, ferromagnetic metals, such as iron, cobalt, and nickel, consist of randomly magnetized domains separated by well-defined... 

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M. Che, M. Richard, and D. OUvier ferromagnetic resonance study of dispersed nickel particles prepared by reduction of nickel ion-exchanged X-zeolites by hydrogen molecules or hydrogen atom beams, J. Chem. Soc. Faraday Trans. 176,1526-1534 (1980). 

Nickel is a silver-white, lustrous, hard, malleable, ductile, ferromagnetic metal that is relatively resistant to corrosion and is a fair conductor of heat and electricity. Nickel is a ubiquitous trace metal that occurs in soil, water, air, and in the biosphere. The average content in the earth s crust is about 0.008%. Nickel ore deposits are accumulations of nickel sulfide minerals (mostly pentlandite) and laterites. Nickel exists in five major forms elemental nickel and its alloys inorganic, water-soluble compounds (e.g., nickel chloride, nickel sulfate, and nickel nitrate) inorganic, water-insoluble compounds (e.g., nickel carbonate, nickel sulfide, and nickel oxide) organic, water-insoluble compounds and nickel carbonyl Ni(CO). ... 

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