See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

GERMAN See also:

• SILVER

SILVER  or See also:

• NICKEL
• NICKEL (symbol Ni, atomic weight 58.68 (0=16))

NICKEL See also:

• SILVER

SILVER, an alloy of See also:

• COPPER (symbol Cu, atomic weight 63.1, H=1, or 63.6, O = 16)

copper, nickel and See also:

• ZINC

zinc, prepared either by melting the copper and nickel together in a crucible, and adding piece by piece the previously, heated zinc, or by See also:

• HEATING

heating the finely divided metals under a layer ' of See also:

• CHARCOAL

charcoal . To destroy its crystalline structure and so render it See also:

• FIT

fit for working, it is heated to dull redness, and then allowed to cool . See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German silver is harder than silver; it resembles that See also:

• METAL
• METAL (through Fr. from Lat. metallum, mine, quarry, adapted from Gr. µATaXAov, in the same sense, probably connected with ,ueraAAdv, to search after, explore, µeTa, after, aAAos, other)

metal in See also:

• COLOUR (Lat. color, connected with celare, to hide, the root meaning, therefore, being that of a covering)

colour, but is of a greyer tinge . Exposed to the See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air it tarnishes slightly yellow, and with See also:

• VINEGAR

vinegar affords a crust of See also:

• VERDIGRIS

verdigris . At a See also:

• BRIGHT, JOHN (1811-188g)
• BRIGHT, SIR CHARLES TILSTON

bright red See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat it melts, losing its zinc by oxida- tion unless protected from the See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere . At a heat above dull redness it becomes exceedingly brittle . German silver in various modifications of See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition is much used in the arts . See also:

• ALLOYS (through the Fr. aloyer, from Lat. alligare, to combine)

Alloys, of which about 5o% is copper and the See also:

• RESIDUE (through the French, from the Lat. residuum, a remainder, from residere, to remain)

residue zinc and nickel in about equal proportions take a See also:

• FINE

fine See also:

• POLISH

polish, and are used as See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation silver for knives and forks . With a somewhat higher proportion of copper an alloy is formed suitable for See also:

• ROLLING

rolling and for See also:

• WIRE (A.S. wir, a wire; cf. Swed. vire, to twist, M.H.G. wiere, a gold ornament, Lat. viriae, armlets, ultimately from the root wi, to twist, bind)

wire . In See also:

• CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese See also:

• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

white silver or packfong (paktong) the amount of copper is smaller, about 40%, with about 32 % of nickel, 25 of zinc, and 2 or 3 of See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron . German silver for casting contains 2 or 3 % of See also:

• LEAD
• LEAD (pronounced iced)

lead, which like iron increases the whiteness of the alloy . German silver, having a high specific resistance and a See also:

• LOW, SETH (1850- )
• LOW, WILL HICOK (1853- )

low temperature coefficient, has been used for See also:

• ELECTRICAL
• ELECTRICAL (or ELECTROSTATIC) MACHINE

electrical resistance coils, and these qualities are possessed in a still greater degree in manganin, which contains See also:

• MANGANESE (symbol Mn; atomic weight, 54.93 (0=16)], a metallic chemical element. Its dioxide (pyrolusite)

manganese in See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of zinc, its composition being 84% of copper, 12 of manganese and 4 of nickel .

The addition of a trace of See also:

• TUNGSTEN [symbol W, atomic weight 184.o (0=16)]

tungsten to German silver, as in platinoid, also largely increases the resistance .