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Definition of Silvering
1. n. The art or process of covering metals, wood, paper, glass, etc., with a thin film of metallic silver, or a substance resembling silver; also, the firm do laid on; as, the silvering of a glass speculum.
Definition of Silvering
1. Verb. (present participle of silver) ¹
2. Noun. The process of coating a surface with a thin layer of silver (or a similar metal), especially so as to form a mirror ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Silvering
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Medical Definition of Silvering
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Literary usage of Silvering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines: Containing a Clear Exposition by Andrew Ure (1844)
"Silvering is the art of covering the surfaces of bodies with a thin film of sura.
When silver leaf is to be applied, the methods prescribed for gold leaf ..."
2. A Treatise on Chemistry by Henry Enfield Roscoe, Carl Schorlemmer (1884)
"Silvering AND PLATING. an Objects made of copper or of brass, bronze, German
silver, or similar alloy are frequently silvered to give a bright and permanent ..."
3. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller, Charles Edward Groves, Herbert McLeod (1878)
"Mr. Drayton some years ago proposed to apply this operation to the silvering of
mirrors upon a large sc.ilf, as the coating adapts itself not only to flat ..."
4. The Techno-chemical Receipt Book: Containing Several Thousand Receipts by William Theodore Brannt, William Henry Wahl (1886)
"Adrielle's Process of Silvering Metals. Dissolve Щ ounces of silver in double
that quantity of nitric acid. Next dissolve 2 pounds of cyanide of potassium ..."
5. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1864)
"Silvering may be effected either by the wet or by the dry method. The wet method
is usually adopted for such purposes as the silvering of thermometer scales ..."
6. Manual of Chemical Technology by Johannes Rudolf Wagner (1904)
"For silvering buttons there is used a paste of 48 parts sodium chloride, 48 parts
zinc ... For silvering in the cold the cleaned surface of the metal to be ..."
7. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1860)
"... silvering liquid, and to about 100° F., at which temperature it is maintained
or three hours : the liquid is then decanted, and may be loved for ..."
8. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"The silvering shows very beautifully the vacuolation of the cell protoplasm, ...
The silvering also shows that intercellular protoplasmic bridges, ..."
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