etching

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Until now, most MXenes have been produced using chemical etching, a process that leaves a mix of surface atoms such as oxygen, fluorine, or chlorine scattered randomly across the material.

From Science Daily • Apr. 4, 2026

The venture would also presumably need equipment for etching and deposition, which are manufacturing and packaging processes.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 23, 2026

More than 300 miles east, construction teams etching another airstrip into the mountains battled icy winds, dizziness and nosebleeds, and relied on oxygen cylinders.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 5, 2025

This was a groundbreaking method of relief etching that allowed him to combine both text and illustrations on the same copper printing plate.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

There was an etching of frost forming along the corner of the window, the glass doing little to keep the bitter fingers of winter from finding their way inside our railcar.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan