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nouna hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
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"a nickel bag of drugs" "a nickel deck of heroin"nounfive dollars worth of a drug
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nouna United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollartype of:
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"nickel the plate"verbplate with nickeltype of:
Definition that contains nickel
- te a brittle silver-white metalloid element that is related to selenium and sulfur; it is used in alloys and as a semiconductor; occurs mainly as tellurides in ores of copper and nickel and silver and gold
- nickel plate with nickel
- platinum a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits
- pd a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
- pt a heavy precious metallic element; grey-white and resistant to corroding; occurs in some nickel and copper ores and is also found native in some deposits
- eureka an alloy of copper and nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire
- sudbury a city in south central Canada in Ontario; a major nickel mining center
- palladium a silver-white metallic element of the platinum group that resembles platinum; occurs in some copper and nickel ores; does not tarnish at ordinary temperatures and is used (alloyed with gold) in jewelry
- permalloy an 80/20 alloy of nickel and iron; easily magnetized and demagnetized
- threepence former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies