For other uses, see Gold plating (disambiguation).
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Gold-plated aluminium cover on Voyager space craft that protects a gold-plated Sounds of Earth recordA gold plated desktop Stirling engine
Gold plating is a method of depositing a thin layer of gold onto the surface of another metal, most often copper or silver (to make silver-gilt), by chemical or electrochemical plating. Plating refers to modern coating methods, such as the ones used in the electronics industry, whereas gilding is the decorative covering of an object with gold, which typically involve more traditional methods and much larger objects.
Alkaline gold cyanide, for gold and gold alloy plating Neutral gold cyanide, for high-purity plating Acid goldplating for bright hard gold and gold alloy...
typically uses plating to give a silver or gold finish. Thin-film deposition has plated objects as small as an atom, therefore plating finds uses in nanotechnology...
Electroless nickel immersion gold (ENIG or ENi/IAu), also known as immersion gold (Au), chemical Ni/Au or soft gold, is a metal plating process used in the manufacture...
ISBN 9780852968956. Hunt, L. B. (March 1973). "The early history of goldplating". Gold Bulletin. 6 (1): 16–27. doi:10.1007/BF03215178. Stelter, M.; Bombach...
A surface plating of blue gold on karat gold or sterling silver can be achieved by a goldplating of the surface, followed by indium plating, with layer...
tungsten has been used in the counterfeiting of gold bars, such as by plating a tungsten bar with gold. By comparison, the density of lead is 11.34 g/cm3...
WGP may refer to: White goldplating: White gold (when plated onto another metal) Colloquially, rhodium plating of gold Wales Green Party, UK political...
Goldplating can range from bright to more subdued antique finishes. Silver Plating: Silver plating provides a sleek, modern appearance. Like gold, it...
Temple, due to the goldplating of its spire. One tonne of gold donated by Maharaja Ranjit Singh has been used in the goldplating, as well as in three...
of "quality creep" is also recognised as contraintuitively harmful. Goldplating (software engineering) If it ain't broke, don't fix it Nirvana fallacy...
"wiring" artwork, resembling the parts of C-3PO that are not covered in goldplating in the original Star Wars films. It was bundled the Kinect Star Wars...
application and gluing, typically of gold leaf, chemical gilding, and electroplating, the last also called goldplating. Parcel-gilt (partial gilt) objects...
at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture. Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have been awarded in the arts,...
statuettes. From 1983 to 2015, approximately 50 Oscars in a tin alloy with goldplating were made each year in Chicago by Illinois manufacturer R.S. Owens &...
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