plat in (plat in)

See platen. platina (pla-tē'nä), n. [= D. G. Sw. Dan. pla tina = F. platine, platinate (plat'i-nāt), v. t. Same as platinize. Philos. Mag., 5th ser., XXVIII. 454. plating (pla'ting), n. [Verbal n. of plate, v.] 1. The art or operation of covering articles with a thin coating or film of metal, especially of overlaying articles made of the baser metals with a thin coating of gold, silver, or nickel. It is effected in various ways; sometimes the plating metal is attached to and rolled out with the other metal by pre ure; sometimes the one metal is precipitated from its solution upon the other, electrochemical decomposition being now much employed for this purpose. See electrotype. 2. A thin coating of one metal laid upon another. plating-hammer (plā'ting-ham"ėr), n. As team hammer of from 500 to 700 pounds weight, used for bending plates and for other operations in armor-plating ve els. In platinic (pla-tin'ik), a. [ platiniridium (plat"in-i-rid'i-um), n. [NL., crystalline grains together with native plat i num.