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Webster 1913 Edition


Metallize

Met′al-lize

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Metallized
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Metallizing
.]
[Cf. F.
métalliser
.]
To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.
[R.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Metallize

MET'ALLIZE

,
Verb.
T.
To form into metal; to give to a substance its proper metallic properties.

Definition 2024


metallize

metallize

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metallize (third-person singular simple present metallizes, present participle metallizing, simple past and past participle metallized)

  1. To coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal.
    • 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
      He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.

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