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 Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
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 Baxter, Arthur Beverley
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 Stewart, A. A.
It has turned the electroplate workshops of the town on to making steel helmets, and in general has been "working in" the smaller engineering concerns so as to make them feed the larger ones.
From The War on All Fronts: England's Effort Letters to an American Friend by Choate, Joseph Hodges
A metallic surface which it is intended to electroplate must, as has been mentioned, be scrupulously clean.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
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
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
Well, of all the electroplated figure-heads with which I have come in contact in a long and varied military career, that man is the most unmentionable.
From On the Heels of De Wet by James, Lionel
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
The problem of electroplating aluminium which I have indicated as awaiting a solution has at last found one.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
