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The early history of gold plating

A tangled tale of disputed priorities

  • Published: March 1973
  • Volume 6, pages 16–27 (1973)
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“The gilding of metals is, of all the processes whose object is to obtain an adhering deposit, the one which has exercised in the greatest degree the sagacity of inventors”

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Hunt, L.B. The early history of gold plating. Gold Bull 6, 16–27 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03215178

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  • Prussian Blue
  • Cyanide Solution
  • Gold Plating
  • Philosophical Magazine
  • Gold Cyanide

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