Sentence examples for iron plating from inspiring English sources

The well-aimed shells just bounced off the iron plating, like hailstones on a tin shed.

They latched onto the idea of attaching iron plating to the sides of the Merrimack, a sunken frigate salvaged from the Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk.

They cost real money, money that Mallory believed better spent on raiders, like the Florida, and iron plating for the captured Merrimack, which was soon rechristened as the Confederacy's first ironclad, the Virginia.

Had she been able to aim better — the revolving turret allowed the ship to maintain a high rate of fire, but it couldn't be stopped precisely in its spin — it might well have stripped away some of the iron plating and exposed a vulnerable underside.

Inspired by its role in inducing electroless iron plating, aluminum was used to prepare iron coatings on copper substrates from the simple plating bath containing no reducing agents.

The electrochemical investigation indicated that the coupled aluminum could shift the potential of copper substrates to an enough negative value to initiate iron plating in the alkaline plating bath and serve as the electron source for continuous deposition of iron.

"But in Japan, it's usually an iron plate".

Tintype is actually a misnomer — it's an iron plate.

Taking a sledgehammer, he delivers blow after crashing blow to a raised iron plate.

In 1894, protruding nails and iron plates in shoes were banned.

Two layers of half-inch-thick iron plate covered the whole thing.