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nickel

[nik-uhl] / ˈnɪk əl /


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In 2025, the HNC site produced about 85,000 tons of contained nickel, roughly 40% more than its 60,000-ton annual nameplate capacity, says Macquarie.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

Oh yes, that extra nickel is before taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

Between 2012 and 2023, official gold production nearly quadrupled from 13 to 51 tonnes, while the country also boasts veins of iron, diamonds, nickel, manganese, bauxite, copper and coltan.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

The metallic Ni observed after a reaction may simply form when nickel oxide is reduced by syngas at high temperatures, rather than representing the species that actually performs the catalysis.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 9, 2026

‘I want me a chocolate sundae and a nickel glass of draw beer.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

At night, Hig and Bangley play poker with stacks of $5,000 bills that they throw around as casually as nickels.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Going from a bulky commercial hydrogen sensor to a smart device about the size of a stack of three nickels was a technical challenge like that of any consumer-health wearable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025

I looked in my pocketbook and counted out a dollar bill and seventy-nine cents in dimes and nickels and pennies.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017

“People will tell you, ‘I don’t like being nickeled and dimed, just give me a price—I’m willing to pay more just to not have to deal with all of that.’

From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2014

Covered with genuine Persian Morocco, with rich black leather bellows and nickeled fittings, they bear the impress of the quality that is in them.

From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company

We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The barkeeper took his coin and maneuvered it through its reception by the highly nickelled cash-machine.

From The Monster and Other Stories by Stephen Crane

A noise of light footsteps muffled by a rug, high heels tapping on uncovered floor, the scrape of a drawer pulled out: and she returned to give him a little nickelled electric torch.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

Every gaze was welded to the tiny nickelled box.

From The Spoilers by Rex Ellingwood Beach

Taking my nickelled monkey-wrench into a likely-looking hardware store, I ask the proprietor if he has anything similar.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Thomas Stevens

“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016

One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick

Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall




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