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 Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
There are oil paintings on the walls; there is an immense amount of the most expensive electroplate on the dinner table; the toilet accessories in the guest chambers are 'elegant' and recherché.
From Hodge and His Masters by Jefferies, Richard
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 Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
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 Choate, Joseph Hodges
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 Stewart, A. A.
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
Related copper etchings appear in the show, and Barney has electroplated them over varying times, encrusting them with weird metal nodules.
From New York Times ● May 9, 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 Chambers, William
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
They were treated with an electroplating process that fused a copper coating onto the forms, which were finished in bronze.
From New York Times ● May 5, 2023
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
The positive metal electrode gradually dissolves and replaces the metal lost from the solution by deposit and electroplating can continue as long as any positive electrode remains.
From General Science by Clark, Bertha M.
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