This element is a solid. Nickel is classified as a Transition Metal which are located in Groups 3 - 12 of the Periodic Table. Elements classified as Transition Metals are generally described as ductile, malleable, and able to conduct electricity and heat.
The man who invented the first ATM cash machine has died, aged 84, after a short illness. John Shepherd-Barron, cash machine inventor, dies Photo: BOBBY NELSON.
It is no accident that some of the earliest mechanical calculators were designed by the philosophers Pascal and Leibniz. Pascal's machine could add and Leibniz's machine could multiply. Objects of metal had acquired skills which had seemed the province of the soul.