electroplate
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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
We went on past a display of electroplate with a card about presents in the window, past a window full of white flowers, past a carriage-builder's and a glove shop.
From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A metallic surface which it is intended to electroplate must, as has been mentioned, be scrupulously clean.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
It was not great oratory after all; it was not true oratory of any kind; but it was a splendid imitation of the real thing—the finest electroplate anywhere to be found.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy
She made use of it as, on occasions requiring a show of lavishness, people eke out a meager supply of silver with plenty of plausible electroplate.
From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by Basil King
For example, gold or silver is often electroplated onto less valuable metals.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 8, 2026
What about those cheap electroplated roofing nails the roofer used to install your shingles?
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 2, 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
Screenings at the Yale University Art Gallery are accompanied by an exhibition of copperplate engravings, experimental electroplated copper reliefs and massive sculptures cast from burned-out trees.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2019
Wax, being a non-conductor, cannot be electroplated unless a conducting surface be first applied.
From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer
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
Since Faraday’s experiments with electroplating in the 1830s, it had been known that about 100,000 C per mole was needed to plate singly ionized ions.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
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
Cameo cutting and incrustation; porcelain electroplating and moulding apparatus, and apparatus for making porcelain plates before drying and burning, may be added to the list.
From Inventions in the Century by William Henry Doolittle
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