electrodepositn.
/ᵻˌlɛktrəʊdᵻˈpɒzɪt/, U.S. /əˌlɛktroʊdəˈpɑzət/, /iˌlɛktroʊˌdiˈpɑzət/ Manufacturing Technology.
An electrodeposited layer or coating; (also) the practice of electrodeposition.
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1845 Penny Cycl. Suppl. I. 519/2 (heading) Electro-deposit, as a protection or as an ornament.
1846 J. Timbs Year-bk. of Facts 214 Brass formed by electro-deposit. Mr. C. V. Walker has read to the British Association, a paper illustrating the Voltaic reduction of Alloys.
1864 Reader 5 Oct. 483/3 For electro-deposit a large series of depositing cells is required.
1949 Proc. Royal Soc. 1948–9 A. 195 235 If the electro-deposit is strongly adhering and of similar hardness, the fine asperities will not be distorted.
1998 Science 21 Aug. 1145/1 Darker areas on the optical mask lead to thicker electrodeposits.
2005 Coordination Chem. Rev. 249 621/1 In general electrodeposits are harder than the bulk materials.
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electrodepositv.
/ᵻˌlɛktrəʊdᵻˈpɒzɪt/, U.S. /əˌlɛktroʊdəˈpɑzət/, /iˌlɛktroʊdiˈpɑzət/ Manufacturing Technology.
transitive. To cause (a metal) to be deposited from solution by electrolytic action; to apply (a coating of a metal) in this way, by making the article to be coated act as the cathode in an electrolytic cell where the metal forms the anode.
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1859 Patents for Inventions: Abridgm. Specif. Electr. & Magn. (Patent Office) p. lxxxi M. de Ruolz, in 1841, electro-deposited brass from the cyanides of zinc and copper dissolved together in a solution of cyanide of potassium.
1882 Science 14 Jan. 10/2 Mr. Wessell began..by undertaking successfully to electro-deposit a combination of three metals which most chemists would..pronounce it impossible to hold together under the battery.
1922 T. M. Lowry Inorg. Chem. xxxv. 692 Silver can be electrodeposited from potassium argenticyanide.
1970 E. A. D. Hutchings Surv. Printing Processes (1978) v. 95 A base of stainless steel on which a thin coating of copper has been electrodeposited.
2003 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 100 13758/1 A thin coating of metal was then electrodeposited onto the molds to produce needles.
Derivatives
eˌlectrodeˈposited adj. that has been produced or formed by electrodeposition.
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1864 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 154 149 Upon comparing this with a specimen of manganese which..had been reduced by charcoal, all the lines of the electro-deposited manganese were seen in the other.
1946 Nature 21 Dec. 918/2 The study of electro-deposited layers of chromium on steel.
2004 Amer. Scholar Winter 69 Compressed powder..was replaced by electrodeposited mesh.
eˌlectrodeˈpositor n. a person or company that carries out electrodeposition.
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c1865 G. Gore in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 215/2 Some electro-depositors use vats..of wrought iron.
1966 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) A. 260 285 It is well known to electrodepositors that metal surfaces prepared by mechanical processes have a layer of fragmented and badly adherent metal upon them.
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