Template:Infobox nickel

Nickel, ₂₈Ni

A pitted and lumpy piece of nickel, with the top surface cut flat
Nickel
Appearance	Lustrous, metallic, and silver with a gold tinge
Standard atomic weight Ar°(Ni)
	58.6934±0.0004 58.693±0.001 (abridged)
Nickel in the periodic table
Hydrogen Helium Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen Oxygen Fluorine Neon Sodium Magnesium Aluminium Silicon Phosphorus Sulfur Chlorine Argon Potassium Calcium Scandium Titanium Vanadium Chromium Manganese Iron Cobalt Nickel Copper Zinc Gallium Germanium Arsenic Selenium Bromine Krypton Rubidium Strontium Yttrium Zirconium Niobium Molybdenum Technetium Ruthenium Rhodium Palladium Silver Cadmium Indium Tin Antimony Tellurium Iodine Xenon Caesium Barium Lanthanum Cerium Praseodymium Neodymium Promethium Samarium Europium Gadolinium Terbium Dysprosium Holmium Erbium Thulium Ytterbium Lutetium Hafnium Tantalum Tungsten Rhenium Osmium Iridium Platinum Gold Mercury (element) Thallium Lead Bismuth Polonium Astatine Radon Francium Radium Actinium Thorium Protactinium Uranium Neptunium Plutonium Americium Curium Berkelium Californium Einsteinium Fermium Mendelevium Nobelium Lawrencium Rutherfordium Dubnium Seaborgium Bohrium Hassium Meitnerium Darmstadtium Roentgenium Copernicium Nihonium Flerovium Moscovium Livermorium Tennessine Oganesson – ↑ Ni ↓ Pd cobalt ← nickel → copper
Atomic number (Z)	28
Group	group 10
Period	period 4
Block	d-block
Electron configuration	[Ar] 3d8 4s2 or [Ar] 3d9 4s1
Electrons per shell	2, 8, 16, 2 or 2, 8, 17, 1
Physical properties
Phase at STP	solid
Melting point	1728 K ​(1455 °C, ​2651 °F)
Boiling point	3003 K ​(2730 °C, ​4946 °F)
Density (at 20° C)	8.907 g/cm3
when liquid (at m.p.)	7.81 g/cm3
Heat of fusion	17.48 kJ/mol
Heat of vaporization	379 kJ/mol
Molar heat capacity	26.07 J/(mol·K)
Vapor pressure P (Pa) 1 10 100 1 k 10 k 100 k at T (K) 1783 1950 2154 2410 2741 3184
Atomic properties
Oxidation states	common: +2 −2, −1, 0, +1, +3, +4
Electronegativity	Pauling scale: 1.91
Ionization energies	1st: 737.1 kJ/mol 2nd: 1753.0 kJ/mol 3rd: 3395 kJ/mol (more)
Atomic radius	empirical: 124 pm
Covalent radius	124±4 pm
Van der Waals radius	163 pm
Color lines in a spectral range Spectral lines of nickel
Other properties
Natural occurrence	primordial
Crystal structure	​face-centered cubic (fcc) (cF4)
Lattice constant	Face-centered cubic crystal structure for nickel a = 352.41 pm (at 20 °C)
Thermal expansion	12.83×10−6/K (at 20 °C)
Thermal conductivity	90.9 W/(m⋅K)
Electrical resistivity	69.3 nΩ⋅m (at 20 °C)
Magnetic ordering	ferromagnetic
Young's modulus	200 GPa
Shear modulus	76 GPa
Bulk modulus	180 GPa
Speed of sound thin rod	4900 m/s (at r.t.)
Poisson ratio	0.31
Mohs hardness	4.0
Vickers hardness	638 MPa
Brinell hardness	667–1600 MPa
CAS Number	7440-02-0
History
Discovery and first isolation	Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1751)
Isotopes of nickel
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 58Ni 68.1% stable 59Ni trace 8.1×104 y ε 59Co 60Ni 26.2% stable 61Ni 1.14% stable 62Ni 3.63% stable 63Ni synth 100 y β− 63Cu 64Ni 0.926% stable

Ni · Nickel
Co ← ibox Co	iso 28 Ni  [] IB-Ni [] IBisos []	→ Cu ibox Cu
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child table, as reused in {IB-Ni}
Main isotopes of nickel
Main isotopes Decay abun­dance half-life (t1/2) mode pro­duct 58Ni 68.1% stable 59Ni trace 8.1×104 y ε 59Co 60Ni 26.2% stable 61Ni 1.14% stable 62Ni 3.63% stable 63Ni synth 100 y β− 63Cu 64Ni 0.926% stable

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