metallize

English

Alternative forms

• metalize, metallise, metalise

Etymology

From metal +‎ -ize.

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Verb

metallize (third-person singular simple present metallizes, present participle metallizing, simple past and past participle metallized)

1. To coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal.
   • 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:

     He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.

Derived terms

• metallizable
• metallizer
• nonmetallized
• premetallized
• unmetallized

Derived terms

• demetallize

Translations

to coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal

Armenian: մետաղացնել (hy) (metaġacʻnel) Belarusian: металізаваць (mjetalizavacʹ) Bulgarian: метализирам (metaliziram) Catalan: metal·litzar (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 使金屬化 / 使金属化 (shǐ jīnshǔhuà), 用金屬處理 / 用金属处理 (yòng jīnshǔ chǔlǐ) Danish: metallisere Dutch: metalliseren (nl) Finnish: metallisoida French: métalliser (fr) Georgian: please add this translation if you can German: metallisieren Hungarian: galvanizál (hu) Ido: metalizar (io) Italian: metallizzare Piedmontese: metalisé Polish: metalizować Portuguese: metalizar Romanian: metaliza (ro) Russian: металлизи́ровать (ru) (metallizírovatʹ) Spanish: metalizar (es) Swedish: metallisera Ukrainian: металізувати (metalizuvaty)