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Answer for the clue "US coin worth five cents ", 6 letters:
nickel

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Word definitions for nickel in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eight nickel cadmium batteries are grouped together inside the handle pack. ▪ Louis, the nickel was the smallest coin. ▪ Low-grade copper and nickel sulphides developed at or near the contacts. ▪ Renwick, weighed down with nickels ...

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n. a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite [syn: Ni , atomic number 28 ] a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar five ...

Usage examples of nickel.

The two filtrates are mixed and treated with a little acetic acid, and the cobalt and nickel are then precipitated as sulphides by a current of sulphuretted hydrogen.

The solution containing the nickel and cobalt with no great excess of acid, is made alkaline by adding 20 c.

Kupfernickel and chloanthite are arsenides of nickel with, generally, more or less iron and cobalt.

Its chief ores are smaltite and cobaltite, which are arsenides of cobalt, with more or less iron, nickel, and copper.

The salts of silver, mercury, gold, copper, nickel, and platinum, chromic and arsenious acids, cause great inflection with extreme quickness, and are deadly poisons.

Specifically, adding sufficient nickel results in the steel retaining its austenite structure at all temperatures.

There was a scar the size of a nickel on one side of his neck, and a larger cicatrix on the other side of where the Indian arrow had been pushed all the way through.

However long it took Abel to sell the nickel and whatever price we ultimately received for it, the Colcannon burglary was over and we were clear of it.

It was chockablock with salons and saloons, hippodromes and nickel pitches, emporia, divertissements, hijinks, kickshaws, bagatelles, burlesque, and buffoonery.

The ensheathed weapon wore a lacquered white scabbard, the guard was stainless or nickeled steel, and the handle appeared to be white ray hide in black silk diamond-turning pattern, with a butt cap to match the tsuba.

He was looking at me through the eyeholes in his mask and his eyes were as flat and gray as nickels on a pad.

One of the men, the fatter one, reached in his pocket and took out a roll of nickels that was wrapped in paper the way a bank packs theirs.

Ordinarily he was true to the derelict type -- ready to do anything for a nickel or a dose of whiskey or hasheesh -- but at rare intervals he shewed the traits which earned him his name.

Rocket to the Moon Ride at the Piggly-Wiggly, with a handful of nickels, training, which Sticks thought was hooey, and so did Croupie.

Noumeite and garnierite are hydrated silicates of nickel and magnesia.