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   nickel

   /ˈnɪkl/

   noun

   • 1. a silvery-white metal, the chemical element of atomic number 28.
   • 2. a five-cent coin; five cents: North American "a button the size of a nickel"

   verb

   • 1. coat with nickel: "it's far easier to copper an article than to nickel it"

   Word Origin mid 18th century: shortening of German Kupfernickel, the copper-coloured ore from which nickel was first obtained, from Kupfer ‘copper’ + Nickel ‘demon’ (with reference to the ore's failure to yield copper).

   Derivatives

   • 1. nickelic adjective
   • 2. nickelous adjective

   Scrabble Points: 12

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