electroplate

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

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

We went on past a display of electroplate with a card about presents in the window, past a window full of white flowers, past a carriage-builder's and a glove shop.

From Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) And Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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

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

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

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

Marko Duffy, a supplier of electroplating chemicals, is one of the operation’s assets on the ground.

From New York Times ● Mar. 24, 2020

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

To carry out this work, however, an electroplating dynamo, of large amperage, is required, the amperage, of course, depending upon the surface to be treated at one time.

From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe