Axel Fredrik Cronstedt
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Baron Axel Fredrik Cronstedt (1722 – 1765) was a Swedish chemist who discovered nickel in 1751. He described it as kupfernickel (the devil's copper). He was a pupil of Georg Brandt, the discoverer of cobalt. Nickel is also used in coins for the Canadian nickel.
Cronstedt also discovered the mineral scheelite in 1751. He named the mineral tungsten, meaning heavy stone in Swedish. Carl Wilhelm Scheele later suggested that a new metal could be extracted from the mineral. In English, this metal is now known as tungsten.
Cronstedt was described as 'the founder of Mineralogy' by John Griffin in his 1827 A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Blowpipe.
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- A Practical Treatise on the Use of the Blowpipe by John Griffin, 1827, from Google Book Search
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