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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An alloy resembling silver, said to have the following composition: copper, 58 per cent.; zinc. 27; nickel, 12; tin, 2; aluminium, 0.5; and bismuth, 0.5.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Chem.) An alloy resembling silver, and consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun chemistry, archaic An alloy resembling silver, consisting chiefly of copper, zinc, and nickel, with small proportions of tin, aluminium, and bismuth.

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neo- + -gen

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