Metals: Understand Nickel Electrons & Nuclei

[edpell]

Can you point me to a good reference on metals. I want to understand for a metal like nickel with 28 electrons how many are free to move in the metal and how many are bound to the nuclei? Thanks.

 

[ZapperZ]

Can you point me to a good reference on metals. I want to understand for a metal like nickel with 28 electrons how many are free to move in the metal and how many are bound to the nuclei? Thanks.

Something like this requires a band-structure calculation, at least for a standard band metal.

Zz.