nickel

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English

Nickel (element)

A US nickel coin.

Chemical element
Ni	Previous: cobalt (Co)
	Next: copper (Cu)

Etymology

From Swedish nickel, an abbreviation of German kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel”)l, from koppar (“copper”) + Nikolaus (“the devil”) due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds.

Pronunciation

• enPR: nĭk'əl, IPA: /ˈnɪk.əl/, SAMPA: /"nIk.@l/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɪkəl

Noun

nickel (countable and uncountable; plural nickels)

1. (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
2. (US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
3. (US slang, sometimes the nickel or the hot nickel) Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
4. (slang) A playing card with the rank of five
5. (US slang) five dollars or five hundred dollars

Derived terms

terms derived from nickel

antimonial nickel arsenical nickel bismuth-nickel copper-nickel cupro-nickel cupronickel the hot nickel Nichrome nickel-and-dime nickel-antigorite nickel bag nickel-bloom nickel bronze nickel carbonyl

nickel chloride nickel-chlorite nickel glance nickel green nickel gymnite nickel hydride nickel hydroxide nickelian nickelic nickeliferous nickeline nickel-in-the-slot nickel-iron nickelisation

nickelization nickelise nickelize nickelite nickel nitrate nickel note nickel nurser nickelocene nickelodeon nickelous nickel ocher nickel ochre nickel pyrites nickel regulus

nickel salt nickel silver nickel-skudderudite nickel spinel nickel steel nickel sulfate nickel sulphate nickel sulfide nickel sulphide nickel tetracarbonyl not worth a plug (plugged) nickel plug nickel/plugged nickel Raney nickel tetracarbonylnickel

Related terms

• kupfernickel
• niccolite
• nife
• nitinol

Translations

element

Afrikaans: nikkel Albanian: nikel (sq) Arabic: نيكل (níkl) m. Armenian: նիկել (hy) (nikel) Basque: nikela Belarusian: нiкель (níkel’) m. Bosnian: nikal (bs) Breton: nikel m. Bulgarian: никел (níkel) m. Catalan: níquel m. Chinese: Mandarin: 鎳 (zh), 镍 (zh) (niè) Cornish: nykel Croatian: nikal (hr) Czech: nikl (cs) m. Danish: nikkel (da) Dutch: nikkel (nl) n. Esperanto: nikelo (eo) Estonian: nikkel (et) Faroese: nikkul (fo) Finnish: nikkeli (fi) French: nickel (fr) m. Friulian: nichel Galician: níquel Georgian: ნიკელი (nikeli) German: Nickel (de) n. Greek: νικέλιο (el) (nikélio) n. Hebrew: ניקל (nikl) Hungarian: nikkel (hu) Icelandic: nikkel (is) n. Indonesian: nikel (id) Interlingua: nickel Irish: nicil (ga) Italian: nichel, nickelio m.

Japanese: ニッケル (ja) (nikkeru) Kashubian: nikel Kazakh: никель (kk) (nikel) Khmer: ស្ពាន់ស (km) (spoan sor) Korean: 니켈 (nikel) Latvian: niķelis Lithuanian: nikelis (lt) Luxembourgish: Néckel Macedonian: никел (mk) (níkel) m. Malay: nikel (ms) Maltese: nikel (mt) Manx: nickyl Mongolian: никель (mn) (nikel) Norwegian: nikkel (no) Persian: نیکل (fa) Polish: nikiel (pl) m. Portuguese: níquel (pt) m. Romanian: nichel (ro) n. Russian: никель (ru) (níkel’) m. Scottish Gaelic: nicil Serbian: никал (nikal) m. Slovak: nikel (sk) Slovene: nikelj (sl) Spanish: níquel (es) m. Swedish: nickel (sv) n. Tajik: (nikel) Tamil: வன்வெள்ளி (van-veLLi) Thai: นิกเกิล (nikkoen) Turkish: nikel (tr) Ukrainian: нiкель (nikel’) m. Urdu: دھات کا نام (ur) n. Uzbek: никель (uz) (nikel) Vietnamese: nikel (vi) Welsh: nicel West Frisian: nikkel

coin

Chinese: 五分錢 (wǔ fēn qián) Dutch: stuiver (nl) m. Esperanto: nikelo (eo) Finnish: viisisenttinen (fi) French: pièce de cinq cents f. Interlingua: nickel

Italian: moneta di cinque centesimi f. Macedonian: никл (mk) (nikl) m. Maltese: xelin Portuguese: níquel (pt) m. Urdu: سکّہ (ur) n.

Verb

nickel (third-person singular simple present nickels, present participle nickeling, simple past and past participle nickeled)

1. (transitive) To plate with nickel.

Translations

to plate with nickel

Dutch: vernikkelen (nl) Finnish: nikkelöidä (fi), niklata (fi)

Romanian: nichela (ro) Russian: никелирова́ть (ru) (nikelirovát') impf. and pf.

References

• Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

External links

For etymology and more information refer to: http://elements.vanderkrogt.net/element.php?sym=Ni (A lot of the translations were taken from that site with permission from the author)

See also

• false copper
• garnierite
• pentlandite

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French

Wikipedia ^fr

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ni.kɛl/

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Noun

nickel m.

1. nickel (metal)

Related terms

• nickelage
• nickeler

Adjective

nickel inv.

1. (slang) spotless
2. (slang) perfect, bang on

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

nickel n.

1. nickel; a chemical element
2. a coin of small, but undetermined value

   Jag har inte en/ett nickel.

   I don't have a nickel

Declension

Declension of nickel

	uncountable		uncountable
Neuter	indefinite	definite
nominative	nickel	nicklet
genitive	nickels	nicklets

Declension of nickel

	uncountable		uncountable
Common	indefinite	definite
nominative	nickel	nickeln
genitive	nickels	nickelns

Related terms

• (coin): inte ett nickel

References

• nickel in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)