Nickel Definition
- ni
- atomic number 28
- nickel-note
- five cents
- coin
- five-cent piece
- plating material
- metallic element
- chemical-element
Other Word Forms of Nickel
Noun
Origin of Nickel
-  From Swedish nickel, an abbreviation of German kupfernickel (“a mineral containing copper and nickel"), from koppar (“copper") + Nikolaus (“the devil") due to the deceptive silver colour of the relatively valueless ore. Compare cobalt as related to kobolds. From Wiktionary 
- Swedish short for kopparnickel niccolite partial translation of German Kupfernickel Kupfer copper Nickel demon, rascal, from the deceptive copper color of the ore (from the name Nikolaus Nicholas) - From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition 
-  One of the variant spellings of Nichol, a Middle English vernacular form of the given name Nicholas. From Wiktionary 
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