Niccolite

Acceptable For Game Play - US & UK word lists

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A nickel ore, essentially nickel arsenide, NiAs, found in America and Europe.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A mineral, a form of nickel arsenide, NiAs, having a metallic lustre and copper-red colour, that is a minor ore of nickel.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A mineral of a copper-red color and metallic luster; an arsenide of nickel; -- called also coppernickel, kupfernickel.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Native nickel arsenide, a mineral occurring usually massive, of a pale copper-red color and metallic luster. Also called copper-nickel and nickeline.
    • Word Usage
    "From very early times nickel-bearing minerals, such as niccolite, were mixed with glass to create green glass."
    Variant
    copper-nickel    kupfernickel   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    nickeline   
     
    Disclaimer: This site has been created by RJ Softwares and is part of the Lexulous & Wordscraper games.