Sentence examples for zinc plates from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Lennon produced the lithos via a sped-up process introduced to him by his assistant Anthony Fawcett, who details it in his biography of Lennon, "One Day at a Time": I devised a way to shortcut the complicated procedure of working directly onto stone blocks or zinc plates.

There are few better places to see these powerful prints than the Whitney Museum, which in 1970 inherited nearly two-thirds of Hopper's known etchings and drypoints from his wife Jo along with related drawings and all of his surviving copper and zinc plates.

During this period, he examined magnetic phenomena caused by electricity and electrochemical methods for preventing saltwater corrosion of copper sheathing on ships by means of iron and zinc plates.

On a zinc plate nitric acid is used.

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.

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.

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.