Nickel is known to have been discovered in 1751. As recently as a hundred years ago, it was still considered to be a worthless variety of copper. Miners in south-eastern Germany mistook a mixture of nickel and arsenic for copper. The name of the...
Lead alloys are used in a range of applications including: Solder : lead solder is used extensively by the electronics industry Terne plate : iron and steel can be protected against corrosion by coating the surface with a lead based alloy. Brass and...
Aluminum is the third most abundant element of the Earth’s crust, behind that of oxygen and silicon. Of the metallic elements, it is the most abundant, 7.3% by mass of the total crust. Due to Aluminum’s high affinity to bind with oxygen, it is...