electroplate
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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
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
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
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
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
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
M. will find directions for electroplating on p.
