German silver

How to use German silver in a sentence

• The principal use of zinc is as an alloy with other metals to form brass, bronze, German silver and bearing metals.

  Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting | Harold P. Manly

• The commonest alloy containing nickel is German silver, although one of its most important alloys is found in nickel steel.

  Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting | Harold P. Manly

• German-silver wire has a much greater resistance than copper wire of the same size and length.

  How Two Boys Made Their Own Electrical Apparatus | Thomas M. (Thomas Matthew) St. John

• But nobody would understand nowadays what you meant by German-silver; it's perfectly gone out.

  The March Family Trilogy, Complete | William Dean Howells

• He was never without an immense, knotted, hard-wood cane with a German-silver tip on its crooked handle.

  Whirligigs | O. Henry