electrocoatn.
/ᵻˈlɛktrəʊkəʊt/, U.S. /əˈlɛktroʊˌkoʊt/, /iˈlɛktroʊˌkoʊt/ Manufacturing Technology.
A coating applied to an object by immersing it in a colloidal suspension of particles and making it act as one of a pair of electrodes that apply an electric field, so that the particles migrate towards it; a coating added by electrophoretic deposition. Frequently attributive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with coating or covering materials > [noun] > electrocoating
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electrocoat1963
1963 Daily Tel. 16 Feb. 7/4 Successful tests have been made with an electric painting system developed by the Pressed Steel Company, Oxford, and Imperial Chemical Industrial Paints Division. It is called the ‘Electrocoat’ process.
1980 Times 4 Nov. 18/3 Rover Triumph introduced its..cathodic electrocoat at Solihull.
1998 Automotive Engineer Oct. 59/1 Each body goes through a hot wash to ensure cleanliness, followed by a full-dip phosphating and cataphoretic electrocoat application.
2005 Independent (Nexis) 20 Sept. The electrocoat will withstand 800 hours of salt spray.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
electrocoatv.
/ᵻˈlɛktrəʊkəʊt/, U.S. /əˈlɛktroʊˌkoʊt/, /iˈlɛktroʊˌkoʊt/ Manufacturing Technology.
transitive and intransitive. To apply a coating to (an object) by electrocoating.
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1845 W. V. Pickett New Syst. Archit. ii. 31 The comparative recently discovered process of electro-coating with copper and zinc.
1873 Manufacturer & Builder Feb. 31/2 This fraud was performed by electro-coating, or otherwise gilding certain silver coins, after scraping off particular portions.
1979 U.S. Patent 4,175,018 9 A method for electrocoating a continuous length of flat metal sheet.
1987 Jrnl. Neurosci. Methods 22 167 A method which improves carbon fiber microelectrode selectivity for cationic amines by electrocoating the fiber with a thin film of the ionic polymer, Nafion.
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