The phrase "alternating plates" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a situation where two or more plates are switched or changed in a regular pattern, often in contexts like cooking, serving food, or in scientific experiments.
Example: "The chef prepared a dish with alternating plates of meat and vegetables to create a visually appealing presentation."
Alternatives: "switching plates" or "rotating plates".
Two different dishes were prepared for each course, so each of the nearly 500 guests was served alternating plates of food.
Mammoth dentition was made up of alternating plates of enamel and a denture that often became worn down by constant back-to-front chewing motions.
Plating among different stegosaurs varied: some forms apparently had parallel rather than alternating plates, and some, such as Kentrurosaurus, had plates along the front half of the back and spikes along the back half and tail.
Two rows of alternating plates.
However, in the case of BiOCl, the salt crystal forms in a structure of alternating plates of Bi, O, and Cl atoms, with each oxygen coordinating with four bismuth atoms in the adjacent plane.
If, in turn, a very high voltage or potential drop is applied as a brief pulse across alternate plates, sparks will be produced along the ionized trails left by the particles.
Finally, the hadron calorimeter, comprising ~3000 small solid angle projective towers covering almost the full solid angle, is built from alternate plates of ~5 cm brass absorber and ~4-mm-thick scintillator plates that sample the energy.
Primers were then synthesized in 96-well microtiter plates with corresponding forward and reverse primers in alternate plates for simplified reaction set-up.
A classic floor piece by Mr. Andre with alternating metal plates has an estimate of $300,000 to $400,000.
An alternating catalytic plate arrangement is used to accomplish this thermal coupling in a cocurrent flow strategy.
The microreactor consists of an array of alternating catalytic plate channels where the heat for the endothermic ammonia decomposition reaction is supplied in adjacent microchannels via exothermic oxy-fuel combustion of ammonia.
