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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
platinise .
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Examples
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Smee cell is a zinc plate side by side with a "platinised" silver plate in dilute sulphuric acid.
The Story of Electricity John Munro 1889
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Falling on white paper, the image chars itself out: falling on black paper, two holes are pierced in it, corresponding to the images of the two coke points: but falling on a thin plate of carbon in vacuo, or upon a thin sheet of platinised platinum, either in vacuo or in air, radiant heat is converted into light, and the image stamps itself in vivid incandescence upon both the carbon and the metal.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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