electroplate

A metallic surface which it is intended to electroplate must, as has been mentioned, be scrupulously clean.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

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 A. A. Stewart

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

He missed the companionship of kindred spirits, and sometimes his memory would play truant, recalling the pleasant glitter of sterling silver and conversational electroplate which accompanied his former London dinner-parties.

From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter

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

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

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

An alloy of nickel and silver electroplated with silver.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster

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

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

The record is next placed in an electroplating bath until a copper shell one-sixteenth of an inch thick has formed all over the outside.

From How it Works Dealing in simple language with steam, electricity, light, heat, sound, hydraulics, optics, etc., and with their applications to apparatus in common use by Archibald Williams