metallize

English

Alternative forms

• metalize, metallise, metalise

Etymology

metal +‎ -ize

Verb

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.

Translations

to coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal

• Finnish: metallisoida
• Ido: metalizar (io)
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• Portuguese: metalizar