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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The common German name of the mineral niccolite: so called because, though an ore of nickel, it has a coppery-red color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Min.) Copper-nickel; niccolite. See
niccolite .
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- noun archaic
cupronickel
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This was called kupfernickel which means Devil’s Copper.
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The encyclopedia tells us that nickel obtained its name because the copper and silver miners in Saxony found that ore containing this substance gave them a great deal of trouble and when smelted produced a brittle, unfamiliar product which they called kupfernickel after old Nick and his mischievous gnomes and when a man named Cronsted isolated nickel itself in 1751, he applied the name of kupfernickel or copper nickel -- since abbreviated to nickel, the word which we use today.
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Copper nickel. Also known as Devil's copper. devil's copper.
February 11, 2016