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platinize

[plat-n-ahyz] / ˈplæt nˌaɪz /


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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 John Tyndall

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

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

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

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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