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  1. It is poisonous - a carcinogen in sufficient doses -but it has been a common material for coins for many years.
  2. About 68% of world production is used in stainless steel
  3. The element's name comes from an incident in medieval Germany when miners found what appeared to be copper ore (actually nickeline, a nickel arsenide) but from which copper could not be refined. The miners blamed this on a mischievous Sprite of German miner mythology, Nickel (similar to Old Nick). They called this ore Kupfernickel from the German Kupferfor copper.
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