{"id":49766,"date":"2025-06-11T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T07:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49766"},"modified":"2025-06-11T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T08:47:56","slug":"nickel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/nickel\/","title":{"rendered":"Nickel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Nickel Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>Recent study has revealed that nickel can be extracted from low-grade ores using hydrogen plasma instead of carbon.<\/p>\n<h2>About Nickel<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a\u00a0<strong>metallic element<\/strong>\u00a0with a\u00a0<strong>silvery-white, shiny appearance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is the fifth-most common element on earth and occurs extensively in the earth\u2019s crust and core.<\/li>\n<li>Nickel, along with iron, is also a common element in meteorites.<\/li>\n<li>It occurs\u00a0<strong>naturally in soil and water.<\/strong>\u00a0It is also an essential nutrient for plants.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It has outstanding physical and chemical properties, which make it essential in hundreds of thousands of products.<\/li>\n<li>Nickel occurs principally as\u00a0<strong>oxides, sulphides and silicates<\/strong>\u00a0in India.<\/li>\n<li>India has substantial nickel laterite reserves, particularly in\u00a0<strong>Odisha\u2019s Sukinda region.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>World Distribution:<\/strong>\u00a0Indonesia (22%), Australia (21%), Brazil (17%), Russia (7%), Cuba (6%) and Philippines (5%) are the major countries having reserves of Nickel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Applications of Nickel\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Its biggest use is in\u00a0<strong>alloying &#8211;<\/strong>\u00a0particularly with\u00a0<strong>chromium and other metals<\/strong>\u00a0to produce stainless and heat-resisting steels.<\/li>\n<li>Nickel is an important metal used in several\u00a0<strong>clean energy technologies<\/strong>, especially Electric Vehicles (EVs).<\/li>\n<li>It is used in batteries, including rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries and nickel-metal hydride batteries used in hybrid vehicles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Nickel FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1:<\/strong>\u00a0What is the formula for nickel?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Nickel is a chemical element with symbol Ni and atomic number 28.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2:\u00a0<\/strong>What is nickel used for?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans:<\/strong>\u00a0Primarily used in stainless steel production, it supports a wide range of industries and everyday products.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/energy-and-environment\/how-extracting-and-producing-nickel-can-be-made-more-sustainable\/article69674974.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nickel is a silvery-white, shiny metallic element known for its strength, corrosion resistance, and use in stainless steel, batteries, and alloys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49777,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[791,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-nickel","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}