nickel silver

English

Noun

nickel silver (uncountable)

1. A hard, corrosion-resistant alloy of copper, zinc and nickel used to make domestic silverware.

Synonyms

• alpacca
• argentone
• German silver
• maillechort

Translations

alloy

• Czech: alpaka (cs) f
• Faroese: nýsilvur n, alpaka
• Finnish: alpakka (fi), uushopea (fi)
• Greek: νεάργυρος (el) m (neárgyros)
• Hungarian: alpakka (hu)
• Japanese: 洋銀 (ようぎん, yōgin)
• Kazakh: нейзильбер (neyzïlʹber)
• Korean: 양은 (ko) (yang-eun), 양백 (yangbaek)

• Okinawan: 洋銀 (やんじん, yanjin)
• Portuguese: alpaca (pt) f
• Russian: мельхио́р (ru) m (melʹxiór), нейзи́льбер (ru) m (nɛjzílʹber)
• Slovak: alpaka (sk) f
• Spanish: metal blanco m, alpaca (es) f
• Swedish: nysilver (sv)
• Thai: เงินนิกเกิล

Further reading

• nickel silver on Wikipedia.Wikipedia