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Electroplating History

Electroplating Relies On The Alloying Of Metals

Image via Wikipedia At the meeting of the American Electrochemical Society, Professor Haher demonstrated experimentally that when an aqueous solution of a salt of sodium or potassium is electrolyzed, using a cathode of tin or lead, hydrogen is formed, and a dark cloud, consisting of the finely-divided heavy metal, envelops the cathode. With a lesser [...]

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Electrolytic Corrosion Of Electroplated Objects

Image by Matthias Richwin via Flickr For several years past the author has been using a certain well-known brand of steel writing pen with great satisfaction. The demand made upon the pens is not severe, they being used only for signatures, corrections and such occasional writing, though being moist with ink for several hours at [...]

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Electroplating Kits Unsolved Problems 1911

By George B. Hogaboom. (Secretary of the National Electroplaters’ Association.) Transactions of the American Electrochemical Society 1911 Image by Chemical Heritage Foundation via Flickr There has existed for such a long time a separation of the practical plater using electroplating kits and the electrochemist that it is a pleasure to present this paper, as suggested [...]

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