PLATING

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 25

The art of coveting copper and other metals with silver or gold: it is elfected in various Hays. - linntl.e silver is attached lo and rolled out of the copper by pre a-ure; sometimes the one metal is precipitated from lulions upon the other; and, of late, manufacturers have availed themselves of electro-chemical decomposition for the purpose. See Volta type. [s. 957]