Nickel
Nickel 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.
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Nearby Words: nickeling, nickeled
Zinc
Zinc noun - A bluish-white lustrous metallic element; brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated; used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron; it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende.
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Nearby Words: zinced, zincing
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- Modern American coins, for example, are made of various mixtures of copper, zinc, and nickel, which are hardly precious metals.
Source: Artistic License Economics -
Shout-Out "Copper, 40g; zinc, 25g; nickel, 15g; hiding embarrassment, 5g; and spite, 97kg." In episode 3:Hitagi: I'll fulfill whatever your wish is.
Source: Light Novel / Bakemonogatari - In an inorganic variant, a bandit chieftain in the story The Creature from the Pit from the original series of Doctor Who was once seen to wax rhapsodic about the amazing treasures his group has stolen: precious items of iron, zinc, and even nickel!
Source: Only Electric Sheep Are Cheap
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