Difference between nickelite and nickel
Definitions
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
- a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
- five dollars worth of a drug
verb
- plate with nickel
Examples
After a day of collecting ones and fives and nickels and quarters, it strangely looked like a lot of money.
The main component of the Earth's field – which defines the magnetic poles – is a dipole generated by the convection of molten nickel-iron in the outer core the inner core is solid, so its role is secondary; remember that the Earth's core is well above the Curie temperature, so the iron is not ferromagnetic.
The corneas were coated in 250 nm of nickel using a technique developed at Penn State called conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation.
