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Nickel vs Paktong - What's the difference?

nickel | paktong |

As a proper noun nickel

is .

As a noun paktong is

an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the chinese product.

nickel

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) A silvery elemental metal with an atomic number of 28 and symbol Ni.
  • (US, Canada, countable) A coin worth 5 cents.
  • Five dollars.
  • Five hundred dollars.
  • Interstate 5, a highway that runs along the west coast of the United States.
  • (slang) A playing card with the rank of five
  • A five-year prison sentence.

    • Derived terms

    * antimonial nickel * arsenical nickel * bismuth-nickel * copper-nickel * cupro-nickel * cupronickel * hot nickel * Nichrome * nickel-and-dime * nickel-antigorite * nickel bag * nickel-bloom * nickel bronze * nickel carbonyl * nickel chloride * nickel-chlorite * nickel glance * nickel green * nickel gymnite * nickel hydride * nickel hydroxide * nickelian * nickelic * nickeliferous * nickeline * nickel-in-the-slot * nickel-iron * nickelisation * nickelization * nickelise * nickelize * nickelite * nickel nitrate * nickel note * nickel nurser * nickelocene * nickelodeon * nickelous * nickel ocher * nickel ochre * nickel pyrites * nickel regulus * nickel salt * nickel silver * nickel-skudderudite * nickel spinel * nickel steel * nickel sulfate * nickel sulphate * nickel sulfide * nickel sulphide * nickel tetracarbonyl * not worth a plug nickel * not worth a plugged nickel * plug nickel * plugged nickel * Raney nickel * tetracarbonylnickel

    Related terms

    * kupfernickel * niccolite * nife * nitinol

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To plate with nickel.

    • References

    * Weisenberg, Michael (2000) The Official Dictionary of Poker. MGI/Mike Caro University. ISBN 978-1880069523

    See also

    * false copper * garnierite * pentlandite ----

    paktong

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, of Chinese origin; any of a number of similar alloys developed in imitation of the Chinese product.
  • * 1980 , James Thomas Herbert Baily, The Connoisseur: an Illustrated Magazine for Collectors , Volume 205, page 108,
    • Chinese export metalwork consists almost entirely of three categories: silverware; pewterware; and paktong , an alloy of zinc, copper and nickel, closely resembling silver, which the Chinese also described as tutenague, and which was probably worked by white metalsmiths also making pewter.
  • * 1928 , The Metal industry , Volume 31, page 227,
    • Many German-silver paktongs were soon flourishing under a variety of trade names,
  • * 1995 , Duncan R. Hook, David R. M. Gaimster, British Museum. Dept. of Scientific Research, Trade and Discovery: The Scientific Study of Artefacts from Post-Medieval Europe and Beyond , page 265,
    • From the surviving descriptions it seems likely that during the later eighteenth century most paktong items were sold (in England at least) misleadingly under the name tutenag.