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sherardize

American

[sher-er-dahyz] / ˈʃɛr ərˌdaɪz /

especially British, sherardise

verb (used with object)

Metallurgy.

sherardized, sherardizing

to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.

sherardize British

/ ˈʃɛrəˌdaɪz /

verb

metallurgy to coat (iron or steel) with zinc by heating in a container with zinc dust or (of iron or steel) to be coated in this way

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Other Word Forms

sherardization

noun

Etymology

Origin of sherardize

1900–05; after Sherard Cowper Coles (died 1936), English inventor; see -ize

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