cupronickel

English

Etymology

cupro- +‎ nickel, likely a calque of German Kupfernickel. (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) Piecewise doublet of copper-nickel and kupfernickel.

Noun

cupronickel (countable and uncountable, plural cupronickels)

1. An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.

Translations

alloy of copper

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白銅／白铜 (zh) (báitóng)

• Danish: kobbernikkel n
• Estonian: kupronikkel
• Finnish: kupronikkeli
• French: cupronickel (fr) m
• Galician: cuproníquel (gl) m
• German: Kupfernickel n
• Greek: χαλκονικέλιο (el) n (chalkonikélio)
• Italian: cupronichel m
• Japanese: 白銅 (ja) (hakudō)
• Korean: 백동 (baekdong)
• Polish: miedzionikiel m
• Portuguese: cuproníquel (pt) m
• Spanish: cuproníquel m
• Swedish: kopparnickel (sv) n