Nickel's properties include an excellent resistance to corrosion, to caustic alkalis and to phosphoric acid, and it retains its strength and ductility at extreme temperatures
Nickel-Electro has, perhaps unsurprisingly, always used nickel for many of its laboratory consumables.
Nickel's properties include an excellent resistance to corrosion, to caustic alkalis and to phosphoric acid.
Nickel also resists atmospheric attack, distilled and natural waters and both neutral and alkaline salt solutions.
Furthermore, it retains its strength at high temperatures and its ductility and strength at sub-zero temperatures.
It is this combination of purity, strength and resistance that makes nickel ideal for use in the production of items like spatulas, tongs and crucibles for substances that would severely attack and corrode nickel equivalents.
As Melvin Dickson, managing director of Nickel-Electro says: "There's a very good reason why we use nickel - it is virtually immune to accidental damage even at high temperatures and is ideal for operations where the twin hazards of physical damage and corrosive attack must be dealt with."
