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Amalgam gilding Amalgams

The electrochemical replacement of one metal by another was noticed by Pliny in antiquity. He mentioned that iron looks like copper if it is smeared with vinegar or alum previously ground in a bronze mortar [275], Metal replacement seems to have also been used in the Roman era for tin-plating bronze, as well as underlying the recipes for the preparation of iron surfaces to receive amalgam gilding that are given in the 9th century [276],... [Pg.133]

Chemical Gilding.—When metallic surfaces are to be gilded, the gold is applied either in the state of an amalgam, which is termed wash-gilding, or is deposited by chemical affinity from its solution. [Pg.291]

Gold amalgam is used in fire-gilding the metal article to be gilded must of course be able to stand uninjured a temperature... [Pg.219]

The tendency of mercury to combine with gold and silver is made use of in extracting these metals from their ores. An amalgam of 1 part of gold, and 8 of mercury, is used in gilding brass. [Pg.219]

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