Word Meanings - NICKELIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.

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• 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.
• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• NICKELIFEROUS
  Containing nickel; as, nickelferous iron.
• NICKELINE
  An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• NICKELIC
  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.
• NICKEL
  A bright silver-white metallic element. 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.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• NICKELODEON
  A place of entertainment, as for moving picture exhibition, charging a fee or admission price of five cents.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• 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. Frankland.
• SELF-CONTAINED
  Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.
• KUPFERNICKEL
  Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.
• PUMPERNICKEL
  A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye, which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but nourishing.
• COPPER-NICKEL
  Nicolite.