platinize
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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 Tyndall, John
In that of M. Dennstedt, which was first proposed in 1902, the substance is vaporized in a tube containing at one end platinum foil, platinized quartz, or platinized asbestos.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 1 "Châtelet" to "Chicago" by Various
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 Humphrey, S. D. (Samuel Dwight)
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 Snelling, Henry Hunt
Porcelain and other wares may be platinized, silvered, tinned, or bronzed, in a similar manner.
From Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets by Young, Daniel
