platinize
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This may be remedied as far as possible by the insertion of plenty of waste pieces of platinum--if platinized, so much the better, as that facilitates the escape of the gas.
From American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype by S. D. (Samuel Dwight) Humphrey
It consists of a piece of platinized silver, A, on the top of which is fixed a beam of wood, B, to prevent contact with the silver.
From History and Practice of the Art of Photography by Henry Hunt Snelling
Zinc is burnt up at the same place, magnesium bursts into vivid combustion, while a sheet of platinized platinum, placed at the focus, is heated to whiteness.
From Six Lectures on Light Delivered In The United States In 1872-1873 by John Tyndall
Glass and crystal ware, plate and window glass, and the same silvered, quicksilvered, and platinized.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison by Benjamin Harrison
Each of these latter is located in front of the platinized point of a screw, v, which is affixed to a small metallic tongue.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 by Various
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