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So in Nashville, Biochemist Paul F. Hahn is trying to fool the body by silver-plating his radio-gold.

From Time Magazine Archive

Here—a man selling silvering-liquor, to be applied to vulgar yellow spoons, only a franc a bottle, and a whole set turned into purest silver-plating, plating that will not wear out through all your lives.

From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

As commercial cyanide of potassium generally contains an unknown percentage of other salts, which, however, do not interfere with its value for the purpose of silver-plating, the simplest procedure is as follows.

From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard

For silver-plating the solution consists of the double cyanide of silver and potash, and may be used either hot or cold.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura by Various

The art of silver-plating was invented at Sheffield by Thomas Bolsover, an ingenious mechanic, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, and extensively applied by Mr. Joseph Hancock. 

From Rides on Railways by Sidney, Samuel