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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 nick·el /ˈnɪkəl/
 鎳,鎳幣,五分鎳幣(vt.)鍍鎳于

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 nick·el /ˈnɪkəl/ 名詞

From: Network Terminology

 nickel
 鎳

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Nick·el n.
 1. Chem. A bright silver-white metallic element of atomic number 28.  It is of the iron group, and is hard, malleable, and ductile.  It occurs combined with sulphur in millerite, with arsenic in the mineral niccolite, and with arsenic and sulphur in nickel glance.  Symbol Ni.  Atomic weight 58.70.
 Note:On account of its permanence in air and inertness to oxidation, it is used in the smaller coins, for plating iron, brass, etc., for chemical apparatus, and in certain alloys, as german silver.  It is magnetic, and is very frequently accompanied by cobalt, both being found in meteoric iron.
 2. A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.]
 Nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called german silver; called also argentan.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 nickel
      n 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
           [syn: Ni, atomic number 28]
      2: a United States coin worth one twentieth of a dollar
      3: five dollars worth of a drug; "a nickel bag of drugs"; "a
         nickel deck of heroin" [syn: nickel note]
      v : plate with nickel; "nickel the plate"
      [also: nickelling, nickelled]

From: Elements database 20001107

 nickel
 Symbol: Ni
 Atomic number: 28
 Atomic weight: 58.71
 Malleable ductile silvery metallic transition element. Discovered by A.F.
 Cronstedt in 1751.