nickel
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According to preliminary testing, Meranda's necklace was found to contain nickel - another toxic chemical that can cause skin irritation.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Sterling silver jewellery does not typically contain nickel but it is found in some cheaper items.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
"Waste stored since the communist era or produced by current factories contains chromium, nickel and zinc," Mehmeti said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
LME 3-month nickel is up 0.3% at $16,675/ton.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026
There were two ice-cream shops, a nickel arcade, and even a good comic book store—all within biking distance.
From "Klawde: Evil Alien Warlord Cat" by Johnny Marciano and Emily Chenoweth
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The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
“We have to do a better job to find those pennies out there—those pennies, nickels and dimes to save and not turn the lights on until you need to,” he says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 6, 2026
He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.
From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025
“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.
From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025
I could hear his hands jingling keys and nickels and pennies.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
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Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.
From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023
“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.
From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017
Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017
"We got nickeled and dimed on everything," he said.
From Reuters ● Jan. 4, 2013
The camera is carefully finished throughout, it has imitation leather covering and nickeled fittings.
From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company
We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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It was the bright nickelled handle-bar which had caught his eye.
From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore
There was suddenly a sharp click, a turn of the nickelled handle, and on mute hinges the safe-door opened.
From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives
He stepped from the portieres to the safe, and the flashlight played again—this time reflecting back from the glistening nickelled knobs.
From The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
For this purpose the brass must be highly polished and divided before it is nickelled.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016
Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.
From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick
The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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