Any artifact that has been plated with a thin coat of metal by electrolysis

Usage examples of electroplate.

And, anyway, to electroplate gold requires very special chemicals and technique.

The Persians mostly used their knowledge to electroplate things with gold.

The firm prints, engraves, electroplates, sews, binds, publishes, and sells wholesale and retail.

This is pressure stamped under vacuum to produce ingots, which are electroplated with iridium to prevent corrosion and then warehoused.

Where the base bar of electroplated steel held them across the floor there were curls of sawdust, yellow and new.

The covers on the platter are crystal-iron electroplated onto beaten gold.

The salver, vegetable dishes, servers and gravy boat on the sideboard were all electroplated nickel silver.

Some writers suggest they were used for electroplating materials such as gold.

Through those friends and the knowledge they brought, the Schmidts had a small electroplating operation up and running.

He had been assigned electroplating, and he had succeeded sooner than Jorgen had with the crucible steel operation.

The gold electroplating kept the iron from rusting, and the product looked like solid gold.

Real Sheffield plate has the mellow, milkier sterling look instead of the harsh pure silver coat of electroplating.

But because they'd never developed electricity, there was no stainless steel, and no electroplating, so the rifle was made out of a strong, medium-carbon steel that was anything but rust-proof.

Adolph's operation was turning out gold electroplated iron and now, steel flatware at relatively low cost.

It was two and a half feet long, steel electroplated with silver, and heavy as a large spanner—or crow, as Ysidro called it—in his hand.