nickel
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Deep-sea mining companies want to scour the ocean's abyssal plains for mineral deposits and polymetallic nodules laden with nickel, copper and cobalt.
From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026
They cite the Indonesian company’s geothermal and nickel mining-related impairments and weaker operating assumptions across segments.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
The increased pressure forced Canadian mining company Sherritt International to pause operations at a nickel and cobalt mine in Cuba earlier this year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Even so, the nickel isotope signature allowed the researchers to narrow the impactor down to a rare class of carbonaceous meteorite.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
One winter a friend gave us a parlor stove with nickel trim.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
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“It is low volatility until it is not. The trick is not to pretend that intervention cannot happen. It is to avoid picking up nickels in front of it.”
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 2, 2026
The chain bundled food with items like character buttons, wooden nickels, hand puppets and drinking glasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2026
Going from a bulky commercial hydrogen sensor to a smart device about the size of a stack of three nickels was a technical challenge like that of any consumer-health wearable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 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
He gave Avery five dimes and four nickels.
From "Charlotte's Web" by E.B. White
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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
“People will tell you, ‘I don’t like being nickeled and dimed, just give me a price—I’m willing to pay more just to not have to deal with all of that.’
From Slate ● Dec. 24, 2014
Still, the nickeled sprinklers that flung glistening showers across the smooth grass, and the big gasolene mower, belonged to her world, in which Nature was kept in her place by civilized art.
From The Coast of Adventure by Bindloss, Harold
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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Around his neck was a broad nickelled collar.
From A Man's Woman by Norris, Frank
Taking my nickelled monkey-wrench into a likely-looking hardware store, I ask the proprietor if he has anything similar.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran by Stevens, Thomas
For copper, when the supply began to grow short, nickelled iron was quickly substituted.
From England and Germany by Hughes, William Morris
Pressing plates, plates of metal japanned or nickelled, used for giving finish to the leather on a book.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel
“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016
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 Van Schaick, George
Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
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 Threlfall, Richard
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