Look up: nickel-silver

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   Nickel Silver
   Nickel Silver (German Silver, Pack-Fong) is an alloy of copper, nickel and zinc in different proportions. Sometimes lead is added if the alloy is destined for making candlesticks or casts.
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   nickel silver
   [n] - a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel
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   Nickel Silver
   Copper nickel zinc alloy.
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   nickel silver
   white alloy of nickel, copper and zinc commonly used as the base metal for electroplating. The result is called electroplated nickel silver (epns). Being a similar colour to silver, worn areas are less obvious than when copper is the base metal. Nickel silver was also marketed as German silver and argentan.
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   nickel silver
   German silver noun a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel
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   Nickel silver
   Also known as German silver. Alloy of copper, nickel and zinc. Used for a time as material for circulation coinage in Switzerland (1850) and in Austria (1915).
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   Nickel silver
   `Nickel silver` is a metal alloy of copper with nickel and often but not always zinc. It is named for its silvery appearance, but contains no elemental silver unless plated. Other common names for this alloy are `German silver`, `paktong`, `new silver` and `alpacca` (or `alpaca`).
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   nickel-silver
   (from the article `nickel processing`) ...copper). It was from this ore, studied by Axel Fredrik Cronstedt, that nickel was isolated and recognized as a new element in 1751. In 1776 it was ... The ancient Chinese alloy pai-t`ung, now known as nickel-silver, contains 10–30 percent nickel with the balance copper plus zinc. This alloy...
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