nickel

Senso (Inglese)

Concetti

sinonimi

five cent coin

atomic number 28

nickel-plate

five cents

plate with nickel

5 cent piece

five-cent piece

nickel plate

Frequenza

C1
Pronunciato come (IPA)
/ˈnɪk.əl/
Etimologia (Inglese)

Borrowed from German Nickel, first used in a text by the Swedish mineralogist Axel F. Cronstedt as an abbreviation of Kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”), from Kupfer (“copper”) + Nickel (“insignificant person, goblin”), originally nickname of Nikolaus (“Nicholas”), due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.

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