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Definition of Nickel silver
1. Noun. A silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel.
Definition of Nickel silver
1. Noun. A hard, corrosion-resistant alloy of copper, zinc and nickel used to make domestic silverware. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nickel Silver
Literary usage of Nickel silver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report of the Royal Ontario Nickel Commission: With Appendix by Ontario Royal Nickel Commission, George Thomas Holloway (1917)
"nickel silver The utilization of nickel for the manufacture of nickel silver marked
... At the present time, nickel silver is of such general utility that ..."
2. A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of Other Sciences by Henry Watts (1870)
"Larger quantities of iron do not enter into combination with the nickel-silver
as a whole, but unite with part of the copper, nickel, and carbon, ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1921)
"(Columbus Meeting, October, 1920) THE object of this paper is to present a survey
of some of the physical properties of sheet nickel silver when subjected ..."
4. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer, Harold Govett Colman, Arthur Harden (1907)
"YI. various samples of nickel-silver used ... 100-0 99-9 100-0 99-48 99'60 99'53
98'4 In preparing nickel-silver it is usual to melt the zinc with half the ..."
5. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1851)
"Nickel-silver has a crystalline structure when solidified from fusion. ...
Chinese nickel-silver may be worked even at a dull red heat, but at a stronger ..."
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