electroplate
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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
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
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
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 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
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
Related copper etchings appear in the show, and Barney has electroplated them over varying times, encrusting them with weird metal nodules.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2019
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
In electroplating, the vessel or tank which holds the electroplating solution.
From Electricity for Boys by James Slough Zerbe
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