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  • Nickel: uses
  • nickel usesNickel-containing products play an important role in our daily lives. Compared with other materials, nickel-containing products possess better corrosion resistance, greater toughness, more strength at high and low temperatures, and a range of special magnetic and electronic properties. Therefore, most nickel production is used for alloying elements, coatings, batteries, and some other uses, such as kitchen wares, mobile phones, medical equipment, transport, buildings, power generation and jewellery.
  • The use of nickel is dominated by the production of ferronickel for stainless steel (66%). However, it is also used in the production of non-ferrous alloys (12%), alloy steels (5%), plating (7%), foundry (3%) and batteries (2%).
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  • nickel-copper alloyNickel can alloy with steels, irons, coppers, chromium, aluminum, lead, cobalt, silver, gold and other elements to make stainless steels, cast irons, inconel, incoloy, monel, nimonic and other alloys. Detailed alloys’ classifications are as follows:
  • Ferrous alloys include stainless steels, low alloy steels, cast irons and some specialty steels. The products are used in gas turbines, some chemical plants, coinage and marine engineering.
  • The most widely used non-ferrous alloys are copper alloys such as monel, nickel brasses and bronzes. The products include propellers, crankshafts and hulls of premium tugboats, fishing boats and other working boats.
  • Ni-base superalloyNickel-base alloys include Ni-base superalloy, Ni-base corrosion resistant alloy, Ni-base wear-resistant alloy, Ni-based precision alloy, Ni-base shape memory alloy and Hydrogen storing alloy. The above alloys are widely used in aviation, shipbuilding, the chemical industry, electronics, medicine and the energy industry.
  • Nickel powder is used for powder metallurgy (P/M) alloys.
  • Nickel coatingsNickel coatings primarily refer to electroplated nickel, which is used to provide hard-wearing decorative and engineering coatings as 'nickel-plating', 'electroless nickel coating' or 'electroforming'. When used with a top layer of chromium, it is popularly known as 'chrome-plating'. When done in combination with silicon carbide it is known as composite plating, such as in the coating of coins.
  • Nickel batteryNickel is a key part of several rechargeable battery systems used in electronics, power tools, transport and emergency power supply. The most important application is nickel-metal hydride (NiMH).
  • filterCatalyst: key to several important reactions, including the hydrogenation of vegetable oils, reforming of hydrocarbons, and the production of fertilizers, pesticides, and fungicides. Moreover nickel is used for filters, binders and some other uses.
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