Nickel
['nɪk(ə)l] or ['nɪkl]
Definition
(noun.) a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar.
(noun.) five dollars worth of a drug; 'a nickel bag of drugs'; 'a nickel deck of heroin'.
(noun.) a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite.
(verb.) plate with nickel; 'nickel the plate'.
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Definition
(n.) A bright silver-white metallic element. It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile. It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance. Symbol Ni. Atomic weight 58.6.
(n.) A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece.
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Definition
n. a grayish-white metal related to cobalt very malleable and ductile.—v.t. to plate with nickel.—ns. Nick′elage Nick′elure the art of nickel-plating.—adjs. Nick′elic Nick′elous; Nickelif′erous containing nickel.—ns. Nick′eline Nic′colite native nickel arsenide.—v.t. Nick′elise to plate with nickel.—ns. Nick′el-plat′ing the plating of metals with nickel; Nick′el-sil′ver German silver (see German).
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Examples
- This period of research on nickel, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The metal underlying the silver plate of the best plated teaspoons is of nickel silver, a trade name for a metal composed of nickel, copper and zinc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Shield, face-hardened nickel steel, 10 inches thick, 66 inches high. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The thought, taken up by electrical engineers, brought out an electric toaster, rectangular in shape, with handsome frame, nickel supports and wire heating element. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The one shown is a nickel steel side armor plate, 14 inches thick. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- So hot is the sun's atmosphere that iron, nickel, copper, and tin are present in it in a gaseous state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- After a little thought he conceived the nickel-iron idea, and started to work at once with characteristic energy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Practically all silver, gold, and nickel plating is done in this way; machine, bicycle, and motor attachments are not solid, but are of cheaper material electrically plated with nickel. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This type of vacuum cleaner, which is reasonable in price, is made of steel and finished in very highly polished nickel. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Around the room, on shelves, are hundreds of bottles each containing a small quantity of nickel hydrate made in as many different ways, each labelled correspondingly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- I gave him a nickel, and he elbowed his way in; and throwing the money on the counter, the store being filled with women clerks, he said: 'Give me three pairs. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The positive or nickel plate (Fig. 6) is seen to consist of two rows of round rods or pencils, thirty in number, held in a vertical position by a steel support-frame. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- In these were found large quantities of iron, considerable percentages of nickel, as well as cobalt, copper, silicon, phosphorus, c arbon, magnesium, zinc, and manganese. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Metallic powder of iron and nickel, or even oxides of these metals, prepared in the ordinary way, are not chemically active in a sufficient degree to work in a battery. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The active metals of the electrodes--which will oxidize and reduce in this electrolyte without dissolution or chemical deterioration--are nickel and iron. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- By this apparatus 560 nickels can be milled in a minute; for large pieces the average is 120. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Don't take any bad nickels. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
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