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Kupfernickel
Kupfernickel Kup"fer*nick"el, n. [G. See Copper, and Nickel.] (Min.) Copper-nickel; niccolite. See Niccolite.
kupfernickel
Niccolite Nic"co*lite, n. [from NL. niccolum nickel.] (Min.) A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; -- called also coppernickel, kupfernickel.

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- Nick). Nickel minerals were green, like copper ores, and were known as kupfernickel – Nickel's copperbecause they produced no copper. An economically...
- was probably a new metal hiding within the kupfernickel ore, and in 1751 he succeeded in smelting kupfernickel to produce a previously unknown (except in...
- copper from kupfernickel mineral, and obtained instead a white metal which he named "nickel", after the sprite. In modern German, Kupfernickel and Kupfer-Nickel...
- refiners. Thought to be an alloy of copper, German miners coined the term, "Kupfernickel" or "Old Nick's Copper". This "Devil's Copper" could not be extracted...
- lack the sign "B" (for Bern) Gedenkmünzen aus Silber Gedenkmünzen aus Kupfernickel Gedenkmünzen aus Silber Gedenkmünzen aus Gold Design by Remo Mascherini...
- as an element until A. F. Cronstedt isolated the impure metal from "kupfernickel" (Old Nick's copper) in 1751. In 1804, J. B. Richter determined the physical...
- roots with kobold, goblin, and cobalt. Nickel (Ni) 28 Kopparnickel/ Kupfernickel Swedish via German "copper-coloured ore" descriptive From the Swedish...
- the cobalt mines of Los, Sweden. The ore was described by miners as kupfernickel because it had a similar appearance to copper (kupfer) and a mischievous...