electroplate
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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 Joseph Hodges Choate
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 C. E. (Charles Edmund) Brock
But we shall also, in the course of our experiments, find that a cheap metal can be coated with a costly one by means of electricity—that we can electroplate by electrolysis.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
A metallic surface which it is intended to electroplate must, as has been mentioned, be scrupulously clean.
From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall
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
Next to it, Ms. Van Herpen’s 2012 “Cathedral” dress, 3-D-printed polyamide and electroplated copper, embodies Hamlet’s comment on mankind’s imagination—“how infinite in faculty!”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 19, 2026
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
Well, of all the electroplated figure-heads with which I have come in contact in a long and varied military career, that man is the most unmentionable.
From On the Heels of De Wet by Lionel James
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
A vessel containing an electrolyte for electroplating purposes.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
