nickel carbonyl

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noun Chemistry.

a colorless or yellow, volatile, water-insoluble, poisonous, flammable liquid, Ni(CO)4, obtained by the reaction of nickel and carbon monoxide, and used for nickel-plating.

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Also called nickel tetracarbonyl.

Origin of nickel carbonyl

First recorded in 1930–35

Words nearby nickel carbonyl

nickel acetate, nickel-and-dime, Nickel Belt , nickel bloom, nickel-cadmium battery, nickel carbonyl, Nickel Centre, nickelic, nickelic oxide, nickeliferous, nickeline

How to use nickel carbonyl in a sentence

I was already over forty, had hardly a nickel in my pocket and this was the biggest break in my life.
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Back then, when you made a movie that lost money, you lost every nickel.
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When the popsicle man came around, my mother gave me a nickel.
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In them days, you could get two loaves of bread for a nickel.
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For every dollar of wealth owned by white folks in the United States today, black folks on average own less than a nickel.
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The newsdealer was looking the other way as he made change so Lamb plucked back his nickel.
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The following methods of plating iron with nickel and silver appeared in a recent issue of a German paper.
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The metal may be brass or copper and finished in nickel, antique, bronze, or given a brush finish.
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The shining copper and nickel spoon sank slowly, and the boy paid out about a hundred feet of line.
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A MAN told a little girl that he would sell his baby for a nickel.
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