Nickel

(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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• This period of research on nickel, etc. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Shield, face-hardened nickel steel, 10 inches thick, 66 inches high. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The thought, taken up by electrical engineers, brought out an electric toaster, rectangular in shape, with handsome frame, nickel supports and wire heating element. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The one shown is a nickel steel side armor plate, 14 inches thick. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• So hot is the sun's atmosphere that iron, nickel, copper, and tin are present in it in a gaseous state. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• After a little thought he conceived the nickel-iron idea, and started to work at once with characteristic energy. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• This type of vacuum cleaner, which is reasonable in price, is made of steel and finished in very highly polished nickel. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• 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. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• 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. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The active metals of the electrodes--which will oxidize and reduce in this electrolyte without dissolution or chemical deterioration--are nickel and iron. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• By this apparatus 560 nickels can be milled in a minute; for large pieces the average is 120. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Don't take any bad nickels. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.

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