Introductory course of natural philosophy for the use of schools and academies. Ed. from Ganot's popular physics. By William G. Peck (1869)
Ganot, Adolphe, 1804-1887, Peck, William Guy, 1820-1892 · New York A.S. Barnes · leaf 452
. 449 The method of silvering, or electro-plating, is shown inFig. 292. The object to be silvered is suspended in a bathof a silver solution by a metallic rod which connects with thenegative pole of a Bunsens battery. Immediately below itis a plate of pure silver, which is connected with the… … The salt of silver generally employed is a double cyanuret of sil-ver and potassium. The thickness of the coating deposited willdepend upon the power of the battery and upon the time of immer- sion. The process of gilding is the same as that of silvering,except that we use a cyanuret of gold and…
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