If it's mostly nickel-iron, well, that's not good.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

The bit of nickel-iron they took out of his chest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota Menage] Reference

A solid body would mass more, nickel-iron much more.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

This was a silicate-alumina rock, not a nickel-iron one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference

"Smooth nickel-iron would make a mighty effective mirror.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

If one was nickel-iron then that, too, would have extra value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

Big lump of nickel-iron, hollowed, with a carbuncle on its hip.    From Wordnik.com.  [Passage at Arms]

Small nickel-iron boulders were easily nudged aside by gloved hands.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

The nickel-iron brutes were a dead cinch to haul off to the smelters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

Course of charging and discharging voltage at the nickel-iron accumulator.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Electrical Energy] Reference

Even nickel-iron meteors usually burn out long before they hit the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucifer's Hammer]

"Mostly nickel-iron with a smattering of rock," he informed his companions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

Belters use them to tug nickel-iron asteroids to where somebody wants the ore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Known Space]

The other phial held a blackened grain of nickel-iron, barely big enough to see.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota Menage] Reference

For example, nickel-iron or neodymium-iron-boron alloys can be used to make strong magnets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cobalt] Reference

The doc pulled a tiny grain of nickel-iron from the center of the scar, just below the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota Menage] Reference

Lead accumulators and nickel-iron or nickel-cadmium accumulators are of particular importance.    From Wordnik.com.  [2. Fundamental Quantities of Electrical Engineering] Reference

Ideally, we need an elongated chunk of nickel-iron, perhaps one mile in diameter and two miles long.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hole In Space]

Some of these are nickel-iron asteroids, others may be extinct comets containing huge amounts of ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference

When a long service life and limited maintenance are required, the nickel-iron accumulator is employed.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Electrical Energy] Reference

The nickel-iron accumulator requires less maintenance, it has a longer service life and a lower weight.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Electrical Energy] Reference

For Jinx was solid all through its rocky lithosphere and halfway to the center of its nickel-iron core.    From Wordnik.com.  [World of Ptavvs]

"It is a nickel-iron asteroid, at present about thirty astronomical units from the sun," Rydberg told her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Stars Are Also Fire]

From the outside, Atronics City is just a derby-shaped dome of nickel-iron, black and kind of dirty-looking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Risk Profession] Reference

The voltage behaviour during charging and discharging o£ the nickel-iron accumulator is shown in Fig. 4.27.    From Wordnik.com.  [4. Electrical Energy] Reference

I doubt that a thousand cubic kilmetres of nickel-iron coming in at 20km/sec would be affected by that though.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference

And not even a big nickel-iron meteorite could produce a field as intense as this; so we decided to have a look.    From Wordnik.com.  [2001 A Space Odyssey]

On a nickel-iron asteroid, he could have walked around on the surface, using the magnetic soles of his vacuum suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

Approximately 87,000 tons of nickel is recovered annually by recycling stainless steel and other nickel-iron alloys.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nickel] Reference

Although Pallas was mostly nickel-iron, this end of it was stony, which was why it had been selected as a training ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anchorite] Reference

In fact, the only uncombined metal that has ever appeared on the planet has been the nickel-iron of an occasional meteorite.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Case Of Conscience]

When you're carving an office and residence out of a nickel-iron planetoid, importing wood from Earth is a purely luxury matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference

One jagged chunk of nickel-iron plowed lazily into the crest of the ship, completely destroying what had been the reception area.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Hole]

The asteroid was a child of the maelstrom: a rough nugget of nickel-iron with some stony strata, three miles along its long axis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucifer's Hammer]

According to scientists, Meteor Crater was formed when a massive nickel-iron asteroid immigrated to Arizona illegally from outer space.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roy Rivenburg: Arizona Arrests Meteor Crater After Learning It Was Formed By 'Undocumented' Asteroid] Reference

The nickel-iron alloy grain size range at the top of hole 2 is comparable to hole 1.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases] Reference

The disseminated nickel-iron alloy grains and composites range from less than 50 to more than.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marketwire - Breaking News Releases]