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1. A hard malleable ductile silvery metallic element that is resistant to corrosion; used in alloys; occurs in pentlandite and smaltite and garnierite and millerite
   - Ni, atomic number 28
    
2. A United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
    
3. Five dollars worth of a drug
   "a nickel deck of heroin";
   - nickel note

1. Plate with nickel
   "nickel the plate"

Derived forms: nickelling, nickels, nickelled, nickeled, nickeling

Type of: coin, fin [US, informal], five dollar bill [US], fiver [US, informal], five-spot [US], metal, metallic element, plate

Part of: garnierite, millerite, pentlandite, smaltite

Encyclopedia: Nickel, Nickel