[A_Steingrube] has posted a guide to his favorite method of copper electroplating. Plating copper onto other metals is popular with the steampunk crowd, but it does have other uses. Copper plate ...

The basis of the electrode was a steel wire and, for mechanical reasons, some form of iridium plating was necessary. The plating solution detailed below gives a dark grey coherent deposit of ...

In some cases, a reference electrode may be used to measure ... Commonly deposited metals include zinc, nickel, copper, and chromium, as well as precious metals like gold and silver. Electroplating ...

Using a process known as mechanical plating or peen plating, he deposits a layer of copper on a PLA print. The results look good, as you can see in the video below. This isn’t electroplating ...

He demonstrates how to electroplate a copper coin with zinc using a nail ... animation to explain the changes that take place at each electrode. After watching this short film, students could ...

such as copper(II) sulfate. The anode (positive electrode) is made from impure copper and the cathode (negative electrode) is made from pure copper. Pure copper forms on the cathode. The slideshow ...