What would happen if the element nickel was no longer on earth?

Question

i'm doing a science project and i need to know if it would be good or bad if nickel wasn't present anymore and like what would happen to the world. help, please!

Answer 1

Nickel is an important trace element for biological organisms, from bacteria to humans (see mii.org link). From a manufacturing perspective, nickel is an important alloy in steels, imparting hardness and strength as well as other useful properties, and useful in the electronics industry as well (see minerals.org.au link). If nickel were no longer present anywhere on earth, many organisms would become sick or die, many of our electronic designs would have to be revamped, and the structures we build would have to be redesigned to accommodate the different properties of steel. In addition, nickel is an important catalyst in some chemical reactions, so our chemical industry would be negatively impacted as well.

Finally, who better to tell you all the wonderful things about nickel than the Nickel Institute? See the 3rd link for that.

These should be enough to get a start on your science homework.

Answer 2

Without it we would have no utensils such as forks or spoons or knifes

Nickel is used in many industrial and consumer products, including stainless steel, magnets, coinage, 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 innumerable varieties. It is also widely used for many other alloys, such as nickel brasses and bronzes, and alloys with copper, chromium, aluminum, lead, cobalt, silver, and gold.

Nickel consumption can be summarized as: nickel steels (60%), nickel-copper alloys and nickel silver (14%), malleable nickel, nickel clad, Inconel and other Superalloys (9%), plating (6%), nickel cast irons (3%), heat and electric resistance alloys, such as Nichrome (3%), nickel brasses and bronzes (2%), others (3%).

In the laboratory, nickel is frequently used as a catalyst for hydrogenation, most often using Raney nickel, a finely divided form of the metal

Without it we would loose all the things listed above and those are some many important objects be observeant