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electroplate

[ih-lek-truh-pleyt] / ɪˈlɛk trəˌpleɪt /


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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

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

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

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

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

There are oil paintings on the walls; there is an immense amount of the most expensive electroplate on the dinner table; the toilet accessories in the guest chambers are 'elegant' and recherché.

From Hodge and His Masters by Richard Jefferies

For example, gold or silver is often electroplated onto less valuable metals.

From Science Daily Jan. 8, 2026

What about those cheap electroplated roofing nails the roofer used to install your shingles?

From Seattle Times Jan. 2, 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

Wax, being a non-conductor, cannot be electroplated unless a conducting surface be first applied.

From Edison, His Life and Inventions by Frank Lewis Dyer

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

Electrolysis is the basis for certain ore refining processes, the industrial production of many chemical commodities, and the electroplating of metal coatings on various products.

From Textbooks Feb. 14, 2019

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 act of carrying metal from one pole of a cell to another pole, as in electroplating.

From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe




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