cupronickel

English

Etymology

cupro- +‎ nickel, likely a calque of German Kupfernickel. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Piecewise doublet of copper-nickel and kupfernickel.

Noun

cupronickel (countable and uncountable, plural cupronickels)

An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.

Translations

alloy of copper

Chinese:
Mandarin: 白銅／白铜 (zh) (báitóng)
Danish: kobbernikkel n
Estonian: kupronikkel
Finnish: kupronikkeli
French: cupronickel (fr) m
Galician: cuproníquel (gl) m
German: Kupfernickel n
Greek: χαλκονικέλιο (el) n (chalkonikélio)
Italian: cupronichel m
Japanese: 白銅 (ja) (hakudō)
Korean: 백동 (baekdong)
Polish: miedzionikiel m
Portuguese: cuproníquel (pt) m
Spanish: cuproníquel m
Swedish: kopparnickel (sv) n

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