nickel
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"Elevated concentrations of cadmium and nickel in freshwater, and cadmium and arsenic in soil, were largely confined to Deene Quarry and a former slag heap in Weldon," the group added.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
"Waste stored since the communist era or produced by current factories contains chromium, nickel and zinc," Mehmeti said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Oh yes, that extra nickel is before taxes.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026
Indonesian exports could slow in the second half, due to weaker global demand and prices for coal, crude palm oil and nickel coinciding with tighter domestic supply, RHB economist Wong Xian Yong said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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The overall energy of the trip and the relationships strengthened by shared experience are worth much more than the nickels and dimes you won’t miss in the long run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 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
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“It’s the fastest way to degrade your loyalty and satisfaction among the people who are traveling with you, because they feel like they’re being nickeled and dimed,” Taylor told me.
From Slate ● May 12, 2026
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
“I can’t think of a worse business – high fixed costs, commodity product, worsening service, alienated customers sick of being nickeled and dimed for every amenity.”
From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2022
As a start-up entrepreneur, Behzadzadeh nursed a swelling grudge against the contractors and vendors who nickeled and dimed him, he thought, at every turn — maybe even Safe Harbor.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2018
It has durable imitation leather covering, metal parts are nickeled and it offers the daylight-all-the-way feature of the Kodaks.
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
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There was suddenly a sharp click, a turn of the nickelled handle, and on mute hinges the safe-door opened.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
For nipping up the leather after covering, they should be nickelled to prevent the iron staining the leather.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
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
For this purpose the brass must be highly polished and divided before it is nickelled.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
“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
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
Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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