electroplate
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These numerous little holes present a difficult surface for making a good wax mold when an electroplate is made for printing.
From Type Typographic Technical Series for Apprentices #1 by A. A. Stewart
It has turned the electroplate workshops of the town on to making steel helmets, and in general has been "working in" the smaller engineering concerns so as to make them feed the larger ones.
From The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend by Joseph Hodges Choate
But we shall also, in the course of our experiments, find that a cheap metal can be coated with a costly one by means of electricity—that we can electroplate by electrolysis.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
He missed the companionship of kindred spirits, and sometimes his memory would play truant, recalling the pleasant glitter of sterling silver and conversational electroplate which accompanied his former London dinner-parties.
From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter
It taught you how to make all sorts of things—galvanic batteries, and kites, and mouse-traps, and how to electroplate things, and how to do wood-carving and leather-work.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock
For example, gold or silver is often electroplated onto less valuable metals.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
Poor-quality electroplated, galvanized nails or screws could begin to corrode in just a few years.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 3, 2023
But it’s the electroplated etchings, sometimes daintily figurative and sometimes scarred into abstraction, that most fully express the aims of “Redoubt,” reflecting an artist seeking newer, freer shores.
From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2019
Now that I’m taking off the curled, brittle shingles that are losing granules by the minute, I see the roofer used cheaper electroplated galvanized nails, many of which are rusting.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 8, 2015
Among minor matters, the wire-lace recently invented at Nottingham has been talked about, and is said to be as tasteful and rich as it is novel, for it admits of being electroplated.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 by William Chambers
They deposited an extremely thin layer of thorium onto stainless steel using electroplating, a technique commonly used in jewelry.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
Marko Duffy, a supplier of electroplating chemicals, is one of the operation’s assets on the ground.
From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2020
Ligands are also used in the electroplating industry.
From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019
Precious metals such as gold could find their way into the sewers courtesy of mining, electroplating, electronics and jewelry manufacturing, or industrial and automotive catalysts.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 16, 2015
In electroplating, the vessel or tank which holds the electroplating solution.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
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