| Nickel |
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. |
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| Nickel |
A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. |
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| Chessy copper |
The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite. |
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| Copper |
A common metal of a reddish color, both ductile and malleable, and very tenacious. It is one of the best conductors of heat and electricity. Symbol Cu. Atomic weight 63.3. It is one of the most useful metals in itself, and also in its alloys, brass and bronze. |
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| Copper |
A coin made of copper; a penny, cent, or other minor coin of copper. |
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| Copper |
A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper. |
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| Copper |
the boilers in the galley for cooking; as, a ship's coppers. |
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| Copper |
To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship. |
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| Copper-bottomed |
Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship. |
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| Copper-faced |
Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type. |
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| Copper-fastened |
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. |
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| Copper-nose |
A red nose. |
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| Copper works |
A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. |
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