German silver

The principal use of zinc is as an alloy with other metals to form brass, bronze, german silver and bearing metals.

The commonest alloy containing nickel is german silver, although one of its most important alloys is found in nickel steel.

German-silver wire has a much greater resistance than copper wire of the same size and length.

But nobody would understand nowadays what you meant by German-silver; it's perfectly gone out.

He was never without an immense, knotted, hard-wood cane with a German-silver tip on its crooked handle.