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It would be interesting to know why they choose nickel.
by RobertoG 8y ago
It would be interesting to know why they choose nickel.
- skykooler 8y agoEasy to electroplate with?
- MrLeap 8y agoNickel tends to be corrosion resistant. Oxidation is a probabilistic sort of thing. The higher the surface area, the higher chance of corrosive cascades. A metal sponge has significantly higher surface area than the equivalent mass of polished bar stock. I bet if they did the same thing with iron, a drop of peracetic acid on it would make it go "FOOF!". Actually that might still work on the nickel.
- zafka 8y agoelectro-less nickel plating has been around for years. You dust your object with a catalyst- often palladium and you can coat just about anything with nickel