Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A nickel ore, essentially nickel arsenide, NiAs, found in America and Europe.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Native nickel arsenide, a mineral occurring usually massive, of a pale copper-red color and metallic luster. Also called
copper-nickel and nickeline.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; -- called also
coppernickel ,kupfernickel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mineralogy A
mineral , a form of nickel arsenide,Ni As , having a metallic lustre and copper-red colour, that is a minorore ofnickel .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From very early times nickel-bearing minerals, such as niccolite, were mixed with glass to create green glass.
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When nickel was extracted from niccolite, the mineral name was a logical source of the name for the element, nickel.
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He named the new metal nickel after the mineral name of niccolite.
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In 1751, Axel Fredrik Cronstedt of Sweden attempted to extract copper from the mineral niccolite and to his surprise got a silvery-white metal, instead of the copper.
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(particularly pentlandite, but also millerite, niccolite, and others), which are found at Sudbury intergrown with the iron and copper sulphides, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite; and the hydrated nickel-magnesium silicates (garnierite and genthite), which are products of weathering.
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