IYC2011 - Nickel Traditional Cache
Sadoprest: Due to local clean-up by the armed forces this is no longer available.
Thank you for all visits during the years.
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This is a cache in the IYC2011-series that is preparing for
the
International Year of Chemistry in 2011. They will
hopefully
increase chemistry knowledge as well as provide for good
cache
experiences.
Each cache in the IYC2011-series contains a clue (on the
log
sheet) to find the final IYC2011-cache to be released on
1/1/2011.
Replace as found, well concealed!
Nickel
Nickel is the chemical element with atomic number 28, represented
by the symbol Ni.
It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. It
is one of the four ferromagnetic elements at about room
temperature, the other three being iron, cobalt and gadolinium. Its
use has been traced as far back as 3500 BC, but it was first
isolated and classified as a chemical element in 1751 by Axel
Fredrik Cronstedt, who initially mistook its ore for a copper
mineral. Major production sites include Sudbury region in Canada,
New Caledonia, Norilsk and Nikel in Russia. The metal is
corrosion-resistant, finding many uses in alloys, as a plating, in
the manufacture of coins, magnets and common household utensils, as
a catalyst for hydrogenation, and in a variety of other
applications. Enzymes of certain life-forms contain nickel as an
active center, which makes the metal an essential nutrient for
those life forms.
The most common oxidation state of nickel is +2, but compounds of
Ni0, Ni+, and Ni3+ are well known,
and Ni4+ has been demonstrated.
Nickel is used in many industrial and consumer products, including
stainless steel, magnets, coinage, rechargeable batteries, electric
guitar strings and special alloys. It is also used for plating and
as a green tint in glass. Nickel is pre-eminently an alloy metal,
and its chief use is in the nickel steels and nickel cast irons, of
which there are many varieties. It is also widely used in many
other alloys, such as nickel brasses and bronzes, and alloys with
copper, chromium, aluminium, lead, cobalt, silver, and gold.
Read more about nickel here or here.
Cache contents
- Logsheet
- Pencil
- FTF-certificate
This cache will be maintained by good friends in Svanvik, just a
few kilometers away.
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Haqre uhtr, oyhr, obk.
Rnfg fvqr.
Treasures
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