Sentence examples for zinc plate from inspiring English sources

On a zinc plate nitric acid is used.

The theory is easy enough: a reversed, raised surface, typically either movable metal type or a zinc plate, is coated with ink then pressed into a sheet of paper to produce a positive image.

Now the zinc plate can be pinned to its mount (at which stage it becomes a "block"), and the finished forme (chase, furniture, quoins, type and blocks) is ready to go into the press.

Mr. McCaughey replaced the zinc plate that fastens to the transom in the stern and serves as a ground for the boat's electrical system.

As Zatlin notes, "Beardsley showed the way to bring art to the public speedily and with a lowered cost of production: he exploited the photomechanical technique known as 'process' or 'line-block.' " In line-block, drawings were photographed and then transferred directly to a zinc plate, from which unlimited prints could be made, without losing the clarity of the original drawing.

Platinum deposited on a thin glass plate and a zinc plate work as positive and negative electrodes, respectively.

The images could later be transferred from the paper onto sensitized zinc plates by means of an advanced technical process, and the lithographs printed in the traditional way.

This zinc plating really is that familiar, cheap silvery gray stuff air ducts are made of, a reminder that modern architecture is a form of industrial alchemy.

He drew in pencil on paper, but also with an etching needle on copper and zinc plates that had been prepared with hard or soft wax-based grounds.

Linecuts are usually made on zinc plates coated with an emulsion of albumin or gelatin mixed with potassium bichromate.

Some of this strip is coated on one side only, and electrogalvanizing (or zinc plating) is an alternative method of applying zinc when controlled thinner coatings are required.