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raney nickel

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.01 in modern English

Syllables
raney nick-el
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A finely divided nickel-aluminum alloy that has been treated with NaOH to dissolve out most of the aluminum.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

It was developed in 1926 by American engineer Murray Raney.

Usage

Inflected Forms

Raney nickels (plural)

Synonyms

spongy nickel

Questions

What does raney nickel mean?
A finely divided nickel-aluminum alloy that has been treated with NaOH to dissolve out most of the aluminum.
Where does raney nickel come from?
It was developed in 1926 by American engineer Murray Raney.

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