2006-10-01 16:26:27 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
OLDER THAN YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2006-10-01 21:02:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nickel was discovered by A.F. Cronstedt in 1751 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The name is a shortened version of the German ‘Kupfernickel’, meaning Devil’s copper or St. Nicholas’s copper.
As to the age of nickel, we'll first have to discuss how the nickel element is formed. All the chemical elements in the universe except hydrogen and helium were produced in stars and blown out into the interstellar space by stellar winds and supernova explosions. Astronomers divide supernovae into two basic types: core collapse and Type Ia supernovae. The so-called core collaps supernovae originate when a star at the end of its life collapses into a neutron star or a black hole. These supernovae produce lots of oxygen, neon and magnesium. The Type Ia supernovae, on the other hand, explode when a white dwarf star consuming matter from a companion star becomes too massive and completely disintegrates. These type of supernovae produce lots of iron and nickel.
So I would hazard a guess and say that nickel was formed when the very first supernovaes Type Ia formed in the young universe. Sometime around 15 billion years ago I guess.
2006-10-01 16:53:46 · answer #2 · answered by cebukitty 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Nickel use is ancient, and can be traced back as far as 3500 BCE. Bronzes from what is now Syria had a nickel content of up to two percent. Further, there are Chinese manuscripts suggesting that "white copper" (e.g. baitung) was used in the Orient between 1400 and 1700 BC. However, because the ores of nickel were easily mistaken for ores of silver, any understanding of this metal and its use dates to more contemporary times.
Minerals containing nickel (e.g. kupfernickel, meaning copper of the devil ("Nick"), or false copper) were of value for colouring glass green. In 1751, Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt was attempting to extract copper from kupfernickel (now called niccolite), and obtained instead a white metal that he called nickel.
Coins of pure nickel were first used 1881 in Switzerland. [1]
2006-10-01 20:18:21 · answer #3 · answered by Andreja K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
thats a silly, silly question... tis as old as the universe, it was along with all the heavy meteals created in teh big bang.
umm no sir heavy metals can not be created by stars to create nickel, that would mean a star would have to fuse silicon, our sun will burn out after it fuses all of the helium...element number 2 on the periodic table, heavy elements can only be created in supernovas, or something like the big bang, get your facts straighe before u talk ****.
2006-10-01 16:28:18 · answer #4 · answered by tkachuk51 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ummm........... Heavy Metals created in the Big Bang....... NOT!
The Heavy Metals and other "Heavy" elements were created in the Solar Furnaces of the first stars DUH!!!!
So the Heavier Elements are around 300 to 500 million years older than Hydrogen etc. which was produced in the Big Bang. ;-)
2006-10-01 16:35:41 · answer #5 · answered by TommyTrouble 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nickel was discovered in 1750s. so it is about 255 years old.
2006-10-01 18:54:19 · answer #6 · answered by skamireddi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
About 23 years.
2006-10-01 16:33:55 · answer #7 · answered by ErnestoV 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
The nickel we use was created in a supernova zillions and zillions of years ago. I am not kidding.
2006-10-01 18:29:14 · answer #8 · answered by Dr. J. 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
All elements are the same age. Did you mean, How long ago was the element Nickle discovered?
2006-10-01 16:35:25 · answer #9 · answered by wernerslave 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋