NICKEL

Nickel

Nickel is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Ni and atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a slight golden tinge. Nickel belongs to the transition metals and is hard and ductile. Pure nickel shows a significant chemical activity that can be observed when nickel is powdered to maximize the exposed surface area on which reactions can occur, but larger pieces of the metal are slow to react with air at ambient conditions due to the formation of a protective oxide surface. Even then, nickel is reactive enough with oxygen that native nickel is rarely found on Earth's surface, being mostly confined to the interiors of larger ...

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nickel

Noun

  1. A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
  2. A coin worth 5 cents.
  3. Five dollars.
  4. Five hundred dollars.
  5. Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
  6. A playing card with the rank of five
  7. A five-year prison sentence.

Verb

  1. To plate with nickel.


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