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US
/ˌɪˈɫɛktɹəˌpɫeɪt/
]
[ UK /ɪlˌɛktɹəʊplˈeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪlˌɛktɹəʊplˈeɪt/ ]
NOUN
- any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis
VERB
-
coat with metal by electrolysis
electroplate the watch
How To Use electroplate In A Sentence
- The electroplate manufacturers in North America in the late nineteenth century favored various plain square, oblong, and low round baskets and taller ones on a foot, resembling a compote.
- About the only likely explanation was that it was used for electroplating, but no electroplated items had ever been found.
- Most of the Sheffield Plate that appears on the market is in relatively good condition, whereas much of the 19th century electroplate is very much the worse for wear.
- For almost four years, he had worked as an electroplater, and he had recently qualified as a forklift truck driver.
- The silver and electroplate he designed is noted for its uncompromising, abstract formal structure.
- These teapots, reflecting interest in the simple, clean lines of polyhedral Japanese tea-kettles, were made in very limited numbers in silver and electroplate.
- The statuette is made from the alloy Britannia and electroplated in copper, nickel, and silver, then hand-dipped in 24-karat gold.
- While innovative technologically, electroplate was conservative in outlook.
- The only child's death attributed to cadmium was a nearly 3-year-old Canadian boy; researchers concluded his exposure came from home items such as paint, batteries or cadmium-electroplated utensils. Shrek Recall: Cadmium Levels Were OK In 12 Million McDonald's Glasses
- As a magnetic coating material, bridge paint gave way some time ago to electroplated and vacuum-sputtered layers of metallic alloys, made up of cobalt, platinum, chromium and boron.