It turns out that quite a few celebrities have allergies of various kinds. So are there any celebrities who have nickel allergy?
Meet Jeremy Clarkson: Nickel Allergy Sufferer
Jeremy Clarkson, British writer and former host of BBC's Top Gear, has an allergy to nickel. Like many of the rest of us, Jeremy realized he had the allergy when he developed scabs and a rash on his legs. Apparently the rivets in his jeans irritated his skin. And whenever Jeremy appeared on Top Gear, he always wore denim jeans. Denim jeans has been a trademark for Jeremy.
This allergy is pretty ironic, since Jeremy's claim to fame is sourced in his love of cars. Cars and car knowledge is Jeremy's other trademark. And considering that cars contain a lot of metal (duh,) working with cars risk a lot of exposure and the chances of contact dermititis.
One of the steps Jeremy has taken to prevent further exposure to nickel is to apply nail varnish on the metal car parts that tend to contain nickel. In general, only batteries and a few other parts contain nickel. However, many car parts have Nickel Plating.
So How Is Nickel Plating Used?
Nickel plating can be used for a variety of different things.High-Quality-and-safe-Nickel-Plating/
- It creates a corrosion resistant coating that will protect the base metal from oxidizing and rusting. It is frequently used in food processing to prevent contamination with iron.
- It can increase the hardness and thus the durability of mechanical parts and tools.
- It can allow you to solder to difficult metals.
- It can create a variety of beautiful decorative finishes that range from a chrome-like gleam, to brushed stainless steel color, to a metallic black. It just so happens that black nickel plating is used frequently in aerospace applications
- In thicker platings, it can make the object magnetic.
Nickel metal is used to provide hard-wearing decorative and engineering coatings as 'nickel-plating' or 'electroless nickel coating' or 'electroforming'. When used with a top layer of chromium, it is popularly known as 'chrome-plating'. When done in combination with silicon carbide it is known as composite plating.
Nickel is a key part of several rechargeable battery systems used in electronics, power tools, transport and emergency power supply. Most important today are nickel-metal hydride (NiMH).
Where & Why Nickel Is Used
Jeremy Clarkson does not let nickel allergy
or anything else slow him down
Just take a look at this statement he made:
“No really. If you only have seven years left, that means the Reaper will be dropping round for tea and buns in about 61,000 hours from now. You therefore shouldn’t be wasting time by pootling to the garden centre at walking pace. So come on, grandad. The clock’s ticking. Pedal to the metal. Or you’ll be in your flowerbed before the plants you bought.”
― Jeremy Clarkson
Not many things will hold him down. On March 24, 2015 BBC announced that Jeremy Clarkson has officially been fired as the host of Top Gear following a fight with a producer of the show, Oisin Tymon. Yet in the wake of this, it seems unlikely that Jeremy Clarkson will be ending his writing career or his career with the car industry.
Throughout the years, Jeremy Clarkson has been a controversial celebrity. He has made many statements that have turned the public opinion against him. However, he has the winning attitude that it takes to overcome Nickel Allergy in a Nickel Plated World.
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