platinize

American  

[plat-n-ahyz] / ˈplæt nˌaɪz /

especially British, platinise

verb (used with object)

platinized, platinizing

1. to coat or plate with metallic platinum.

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platinize British  

/ ˈplætɪˌnaɪz /

verb

1. (tr) to coat with platinum

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Other Word Forms

• platinization
  noun

Etymology

Origin of platinize

First recorded in 1815–25; platin(um) + -ize

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

platinized

Each of these latter is located in front of the platinized point of a screw, v, which is affixed to a small metallic tongue.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various

Zinc is burnt up at the same place, magnesium bursts into vivid combustion, while a sheet of platinized platinum, placed at the focus, is heated to whiteness.

From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall

In that of M. Dennstedt, which was first proposed in 1902, the substance is vaporized in a tube containing at one end platinum foil, platinized quartz, or platinized asbestos.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various

The platinized plates thus obtained are quite satisfactory for the investigation of strong solutions.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 8 "Conduction, Electric" by Various

This may be remedied as far as possible by the insertion of plenty of waste pieces of platinum--if platinized, so much the better, as that facilitates the escape of the gas.

From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey