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nickel

[ UK /nˈɪkə‍l/ ]
[ US /ˈnɪkəɫ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
  2. a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
  3. five dollars worth of a drug
    a nickel deck of heroin
    a nickel bag of drugs
VERB
  1. plate with nickel
    nickel the plate

How To Use nickel In A Sentence

  • 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. Does Zonal Swishing Play a Part in Earth's Magnetic Field Reversals? | Universe Today
  • The corneas were coated in 250 nm of nickel using a technique developed at Penn State called conformal-evaporated-film-by-rotation. Physicsworld.com: all content
  • I got out all my change, and put it on the counter: two pennies, two nickels, two quarters.
  • Cobalt, nickel and manganese are metals with iron-like properties.
  • a nickel deck of heroin
  • Scientists believe the magnetic field is generated deep inside the Earth where the heat of the planet's solid inner core churns a liquid outer core of iron and nickel.
  • Copper produces a reddish tinge, which is by no means unpleasant compared with the dazzling whiteness of the nickel deposit. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887
  • Lara's 100%-owned Araguaia Nickel Project comprises 53,889 hectares of exploration licenses and claims in a district that has seen several significant nickel discoveries in recent years: Araguaia adjacent to Vila Oito (Teck), Serra da Tapa and Vale dos Sonhos (Xstrata) and Lontra (Horizonte Minerals plc). The Earth Times Online Newspaper
  • Its excellent toughness is due to a fine-grained structure of tough nickel-ferrite devoid of embrittling carbide networks, which are taken into solution during tempering at 570°C to form stable austenite islands.
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