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electroplate

[ih-lek-truh-playt] / ɪˈlɛk trəˌpleɪt /


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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

He missed the companionship of kindred spirits, and sometimes his memory would play truant, recalling the pleasant glitter of sterling silver and conversational electroplate which accompanied his former London dinner-parties.

From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter

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

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

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

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

The family cat had been electroplated by lightning.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 3 May 1906 by Various

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

An alternative method of soldering aluminium will be described when the electroplating of aluminium is discussed, § 138.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall


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