Nickelic - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: nickelicNickelic
Pertaining to or containing nickel specifically designating compounds in which as contrasted with the nickelous compounds the metal has a higher valence as nickelic oxide...
Nickelous
Of pertaining to or designating those compounds of nickel in which as contrasted with the nickelic compounds the metal has a lower valence as nickelous oxide...
Nickel
A bright silver white metallic element of atomic number 28 It is of the iron group and is hard malleable and ductile It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite with arsenic in the mineral niccolite and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance Symbol Ni Atomic weight 5870...
Nickel steel
A kind of cast steel containing nickel which greatly increases its strength It is used for armor plate bicycle tubing propeller shafts etc...
constantan
a copper nickel alloy composed of approximately 55 per cent copper and 45 per cent nickel with high electrical resistance and a low temperature coefficient it is used as resistance wire and in thermocouples...
Garnierite
An amorphous mineral of apple green color a hydrous silicate of nickel and magnesia It is an important ore of nickel...
buffalo nickel
A United States five cent coin minted from 1913 to 1937 having an image of an American bison ldquobuffalordquo on its reverse and an American Indian on the obverse...
Cabrerite
An apple green mineral a hydrous arseniate of nickel cobalt and magnesia so named from the Sierra Cabrera Spain...
Chrysoprase
An apple green variety of chalcedony colored by nickel It has a dull flinty luster and is sometimes used in jewelry...
Coherer
Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact between pieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against each other is materially improved in conductivity by the influence of Hertzian waves so called by Sir O J Lodge in 1894 on the assumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the loosely connected parts to cohere or weld together a condition easily destroyed by tapping A common form of coherer as used in wireless telegraphy consists of a tube containing filings usually a pinch of nickel and silver filings in equal parts between terminal wires or plugs called conductor plugs...
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