PirateDocBrown
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Nickel coins as a source of pure nickel
This arose from a conversation about someone wishing to extract nickel from stainless steel flatware, or alternatively, US "nickels", i.e. 5 cent
coins, which are only 25% nickel.
Several countries issued coins of pure nickel, and these can be used directly.
Netherlands,
10, 25 cent, 1948-2001
1, 2 1/2 guilder, 1967-2001
France,
1/2 franc, 1965-2001
1 franc, 1960-2001
2 franc, 1979-2001
Canada,
5 cent, 1955-1981
10 cent, 1969-1999
25 cent, 1968-1999
I'm sure there were many others, but these are common ones available to me.
[Edited on 6/22/22 by PirateDocBrown]
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Back in 2017 during the great nickel spike I bought pounds and pounds and pounds of the old Canadian nickels. Just had to move them to my new house.
They travel well.
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When the euro came in the Netherlands, I kept a pound or so of 10 cent and 25 cent coins. These coins give most nickel for their price. One 10 cent
coin is 1.50 grams of nickel and one 25 cent coin is 3.00 grams of nickel. In euros, this means a little over 3 eurocents per gram of pure nickel. The
nickel is over 99.5%, the remainder being mainly tin and having only traces of other metals. Very useful!
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I travelled to France a bunch back in the 80s (and some to NL as well), and have a few dozen each of 1/2 and 1 franc coins. Being near the Canadian
border, and that Canadian coins are very similar to US ones, we get a bit of them in circulation. So a few of those as well.
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if anyone needs nickel hit me up, got .. 3-5kg of pure nickel used for electroplating, its about 5mm thick "coins" welded together 4x5 with the size
of about 120x120mm
theyre apparently called "s-rounds"
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Nickels electrolyze easily in a sulfuric acid bath. I used this method to collect some nickel for catalysts back in 2018.
I used a "basket" made from copper wire to support a stack of nickels while they dissolved away.
Nickel carbonate is sold as a ceramic colorant. It's cheap and less toxic to work with.
What are you planning to do with it once you have it?
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