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**Symbol:** Ni
**Atomic number:** 28
**International title:** niccolum
**Relative Atomic Weight:** 58,693
**Information:** Nickel is a poisonous, malleable, traction metal with a silver colour. It has ferromagnetic properties (it exhibits spontaneous magnetization).
**Use:** It is used in alloy production and passivation (nickel plating) of other metals.
**Occurrence:** Nickel is relatively richly present in earth's crust, large quantities are contained in the core of the Earth. Among its most important minerals are pentlandite (Ni, Fe)āSā or nickel sulfide NiS.
**Structure:** The nickel crystallizes into a cubic (cubic) system (a surface-centered base cell).
