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Metallize vs Metalline - What's the difference?

metallize | metalline |

As a verb metallize

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

As a noun metalline is

(chemistry|dated) a substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft, dark-coloured metal, used in the bearings of machines to reduce friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.

As an adjective metalline is

(chemistry) relating to, or resembling, a metal; metallic.

metallize

English

Alternative forms

* metalize, metallise, metalise

Verb

(metalliz)
  • To coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879 , title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
    • , author=Th Du Moncel , page=166 , publisher=Harper , passage=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.}}

    metalline

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (chemistry, dated) A substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft, dark-coloured metal, used in the bearings of machines to reduce friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (chemistry) Relating to, or resembling, a metal; metallic.
    • metalline properties
  • Impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate.
    • metalline water
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