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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. 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 ...

  7. Mueller–Hinton agar - Wikipedia

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    This means that almost all organisms plated on it will grow. Additionally, it contains starch. Starch is known to absorb toxins released from bacteria, so that they cannot interfere with the antibiotics. Second, it is a loose agar. This allows for better diffusion of the antibiotics than most other plates. A better diffusion leads to a truer ...

  8. Platen (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    A platen is a printing plate. Platen may also refer to: Platen (Pomeranian family) Platen (surname) Platen, Luxembourg; See also. Platten (disambiguation)

  9. Gold plating - Wikipedia

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    The plating baths have to be kept free of contamination. Soft, pure gold is deposited from special electrolytes. Entire printed circuit boards can be plated. This technology can be used for depositing layers suitable for wire bonding. Bright hard gold on contacts, with Knoop hardness between 120–300 and purity of 99.7–99.9% gold.