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Nickel

Nickel is the metal that made the jet age possible, not to mention margarine and bicycle sprockets. We visit Rolls Royce to discover the incredible materials science that this chemical element and its super-alloys have driven.

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Mon 6 Jul 2015 00:32GMT
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The metal that made the jet age possible.

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