nickel-iron battery
nickel-iron accumulator | a storage battery having a nickel oxide cathode and an iron anode with an electrolyte of potassium hydroxide, each cell gives about . volts |
| zinc ointment | an ointment containing zinc that is used to treat certain skin diseases |
| nickel | a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar |
| nickel nickel note | five dollars worth of a drug, a nickel bag of drugs, a nickel deck of heroin |
| zinc deficiency | a deficiency caused by inadequate zinc in the diet or by liver disease or cystic fibrosis or other diseases |
nickel
Ni
atomic number | a hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion, used in alloys, occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite |
zinc
Zn
atomic number | a bluish-white lustrous metallic element, brittle at ordinary temperatures but malleable when heated, used in a wide variety of alloys and in galvanizing iron, it occurs naturally as zinc sulphide in zinc blende |
chrome-nickel steel
Elinvar | Elinvar is a trademark for a kind of steel used for watch springs because its elasticity is constant over a wide range of temperatures |
nickel-base alloy
nickel alloy | an alloy whose main constituent is nickel |
| nickel bronze | a bronze containing up to % nickel |
nickel silver
German silver | a silver-white alloy containing copper and zinc and nickel |
| nickel steel | an alloy steel containing nickel |
| zinc cadmium sulfide | cadmium sulfide containing zinc |
zinc blende
blende
sphalerite | an ore that is the chief source of zinc, consists largely of zinc sulfide in crystalline form |
zinc oxide
flowers of zinc
philosopher's wool
philosophers' wool | oxide of zinc, a white powder used as a pigment or in cosmetics or glass or inks and in zinc ointment |
zinc sulfate
zinc sulphate
white vitriol
zinc vitriol | a colorless water-soluble powder, used as a mordant or to preserve wood or for the electrodeposition of zinc |
zinc sulfide
zinc sulphide | a yellow to white crystalline fluorescent compound that occurs naturally as sphalerite or wurtzite and is used as a luminous pigment |
zinc white
Chinese white | a white pigment used in house paints, consists of zinc oxide |
| nickel-and-dime | accumulate gradually, she nickeled-and-dimed together a small house for her family |
| nickel | plate with nickel, nickel the plate |
| zinc | coat or cover with zinc |
penny-pinch
nickel-and-dime | spend money frugally, spend as little as possible |
| nickel-and-dime(a) | low-paying, a nickel-and-dime job |
nickel-and-dime
small-time | of minor importance, a nickel-and-dime operation run out of a single rented room, a small-time actor |