Sentences with 'nickel'
Example sentences and phrases with the word nickel and other words derived from it.
• « Bronze, an alloy of copper and zinc or nickel, required technical skill and access to its constituent minerals to make. However, the final product was much harder and more durable than copper alone, and with the advent of large-scale use of bronze in Egypt by the Hyksos, the possibilities for the growth of Egyptian power increased enormously. »
• « There were deposits of Canadian nickel for steel alloys, Chilean nitrates, Australian copper and gold, and Malaysian tin, to name but a few mineral resources coveted by Europeans. »
• « In the central part of the globe: the core. Its outer part, formed by a mass of iron and nickel (2 100 km thick), has temperatures of over 2 000 °C. The inner core, which no one has reached, 1 300 km deeper, is 5 000 °C hot. »