electroplate
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nickel is also used for electroplating, for nickel coins, for chemicals, etc.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by C. K. (Charles Kenneth) Leith
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