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AT a reception which preceded the inspection on October 21 of the new Research and Development Department Laboratory erected by the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd., in Wiggin Street, Birmingham, Lord Weir referred to the great extension that has taken place in the use of nickel and its alloys during the last decade. Before 1914, most of the nickel produced in the world was utilized for armament purposes. As a result of the research and development work that has been carried out since that time, both by the International Nickel Co. and its associates, and by nickel users throughout the world, the metal now enters into a wide variety of alloys and is employed to an increasing extent in nearly every industry. In 1922, the world consumption of the metal was only eight thousand six hundred tons, but this rose to seventy-five thousandT tons last year, most of it for uses unconnected with war.
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New Laboratories of the Mond Nickel Co., Ltd. Nature 138, 771 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138771a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138771a0