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Matte, nickel

EC number: 273-749-6 | CAS number: 69012-50-6 Product of blowing smelted nickel ore in a converter to lower the iron content.

Life Cycle description
Uses advised against

Environmental fate & pathways

Endpoint summary

Administrative data

Description of key information

Additional information

Relevant data for Adsorption/Desorption endpoints are available. Volatilization and Distribution Modeling are not applicable endpoints for nickel matte, as recognized in the Guidance to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 Classification, Labelling and Packaging of substances and mixtures.

Overview of solid water partition coefficients (Kd) and the fraction of emission directed to water by STP for the nickel matte

	Unit	Cu	Pb	As	Ni	Co
Suspended matter (freshwater)	L/Kg	30,246	295,121	10,000	26,303	38,905
Suspended matter (marine)	L/Kg	131,826	1,518,099	10,000	6,290	97,096
Sediment (freshwater)	L/Kg	24,409	153,848	6,607	7,079	871
Soil	L/Kg	2,120	6,400	191	724	2951.21
Removal rate STP to sludge	%	92	84	26*	40	40
Reference		Cu CSR (2010)	Pb CSR (2010)	Crommentuyn et al. (1997)	Ni CSR (2010)	Co CSR (2010)

*The fraction of Arsenic removed by a biological STP was calculated by means of EUSES 2.1.

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