Nickel
Níquel (Ni, Z=28)
- Date
- 1751 · confidence high
- Place
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Credited to
- Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
- People
- 👤 Axel Fredrik Cronstedt1722–1765
- Field
- Matter & energy
What was discovered
Cronstedt isolated a white metal from 'kupfernickel' (devil's copper) from the Los mine and showed that it contained no copper.
Confirmation as an element came in 1775 with Bergman.
What it led to
- Stainless steel and nickel-chromium alloys
- Nickel coins
- Nickel-cadmium and nickel-metal hydride batteries
Built on
- Swedish cobalt mining
- Mineralogical analysis