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What is a cupronickel?

What is a cupronickel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An alloy of copper containing from 10 to 40% nickel.
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The tracer bullet consisted of a cupronickel shell, the nose of which contained a leaden core to balance the bullet properly.
As soon as the cupronickel jacket strikes the armor plate it splits and the lead core flattens out and flies into fragments.
Our armor-piercing bullet was made with a cupronickel jacket for the sake of the gun barrel.
This would have been copper, silver, or gold-not the modern base-metal alloys like cupronickel, aluminum-bronze, and copper-plated zinc.
While many types of resistive metal foils are available for the construction of flexible heaters, the most common types are cupronickel, constantan, Inconcl and aluminum.
In rifle and machine-gun bullets, a soft core of lead is encased in a harder jacket of steel or cupronickel.

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