electroplating

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  1. The process or art of coating metals and other materials with an adherent film of metal, in a bath containing a solution of the metal, by means of the electrolytic action of an electric current from a battery or dynamo. In simple forms of electroplating apparatus, the bath containing the metallic solution may form the battery, as in plating with copper. The more common plan is to employ a current obtained from some source outside the bath. Table-cutlery or-ware, building- or car-fixtures, lamps, etc., to be electroplated, are suspended by wires from a metal rod laid across the top of the bath and connected with the negative pole of the battery, this terminal of the current forming the cathode. The silver, nickel, copper, etc., to be deposited is suspended in like manner from a rod connected with the positive pole of the battery, the terminal forming the anode. (See electrolysis, electrometallurgy.) The deposition of metals by electrolysis forms a part of several arts, as in electrotyping; but as in these the film of metal deposited in the bath is not adherent, they are described under separate heads. Electroplating is strictly the covering of a metal with a metallic film permanently attached to it, as in nickel-plating, plating telegraph-wires with copper, and table-ware with silver. See electrotype, galvanoplastic, galvanoglyph, galvanograph, and nickel-plating.
  2. The deposit itself, or the surface, obtained by means of the process explained above.

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  • It could not be used for electroplating or deposition, nor could it charge storage batteries, all of which are easily within the ability of the direct current. —  Edison, His Life and Inventions
  • Jody had been wearing some very low-cut jeans and a crop top when he'd posed her for the electroplating, and the bikers had insisted upon exposing more of her cleavage than was probably decorous, but what could you expect from a couple of guys who specialized in making high-end garden gnomes acting out the Kama Sutra? —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • Technology: electroplating, metal / barrier etch, photoresist strip, wafer cleaning and thinning —  Marketwire - Breaking News Releases
  • Now the other track is, if you look at your portfolio of products, there is the question, the electroplating is an above average growth segment of the industry and that you dominate that segment, not the biggest market but that's clearly a place where you guys dominate and that's good. —  SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
  • The LIGA process combines lithography, electroplating, and molding and is especially useful for fabricate high aspect ratio MEMS devices. —  DIGITIMES: IT news from Asia
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