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bce, metalworkers from one chinese province were highly regarded for paktong, or white copper --a metal smelted from local ores, with a small addition of zinc added for workability--but it was not recognized that the unusual color of the alloy resulted from the high content of a third metal, nickel, in
misfortune. thus, the name cronstedt gave to his newly discovered metal nickel referenced the host mineral, and by extension, its mythologized demonic origins. at the time of baron cronstedt's discovery, his new metal was still considered about as useless as the miners had found its native ore, but in...
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