Photo by Metal Arts Company, Inc. courtesy of US Department of Energy (DOE).Electroplating is generally done for two quite different reasons: decoration and protection.Metals such as gold and silver are plated for decoration: it's cheaper to have gold- or silver-plated jewelry than solid ...
The glass for automible windshields is made using the float glass process. In this method, the raw material is heated to a molten state and fed onto a bath of molten tin. The glass literally floats on top of the fin; because the fin is perfectly flat, the glass also becomes flat. Fr...