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  2. Platen - Wikipedia

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    Section of a platen printing press in use. The platen is the sturdy plate which applies the pressure to the paper and type. A platen (or platten) is a platform with a variety of roles in printing or manufacturing. It can be a flat metal (or earlier, wooden) plate pressed against a medium (such as paper) to cause an impression in letterpress ...

  3. Letterpress printing - Wikipedia

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    1917 press room, using a line shaft power system. At right are several small platen jobbing presses, at left, a cylinder press.. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution and industrial mechanisation, inking was carried out by rollers that passed over the face of the type, then moved out of the way onto an ink plate to pick up a fresh film of ink for the next sheet.

  4. Spot plate - Wikipedia

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    A spot plate, also called a reaction plate, color test plate, [1] or spotting tile (British English), is a laboratory tool made either from ceramics or plastics. [2] Each plate consists of many cavity-like depressions in which only small amount of reactants can be added at a time. [ 3 ]

  5. Theoretical plate - Wikipedia

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    A theoretical plate in many separation processes is a hypothetical zone or stage in which two phases, such as the liquid and vapor phases of a substance, ...

  6. Plating - Wikipedia

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    Plating is a finishing process in which a metal is deposited on a surface. Plating has been done for hundreds of years; it is also critical for modern technology. Plating is used to decorate objects, for corrosion inhibition, to improve solderability, to harden, to improve wearability, to reduce friction, to improve paint adhesion, to alter conductivity, to improve IR reflectivity, for ...

  7. Replica plating - Wikipedia

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    Negative selection through replica plating to screen for ampicillin sensitive colonies. Replica plating is a microbiological technique in which one or more secondary Petri plates containing different solid (agar-based) selective growth media (lacking nutrients or containing chemical growth inhibitors such as antibiotics) are inoculated with the same colonies of microorganisms from a primary ...

  8. Electrotyping - Wikipedia

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    Both methods yielded plates that could be preserved in case of future needs, for example in the printing of novels and other books of unpredictable popularity. The movable type used to compose the original forme could then be re-used. Both methods could be used to prepared curved plates for rotary presses, which were used for the longest print ...

  9. Gold plating - Wikipedia

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    There are five recognized classes of gold plating chemistry: Alkaline gold cyanide, for gold and gold alloy plating; Neutral gold cyanide, for high-purity plating; Acid gold plating for bright hard gold and gold alloy plating; Non-cyanide, generally sulphite or chloride-based for gold and gold alloy plating; Miscellaneous