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Yes -- would love to hear thoughts from anyone familiar with chrome plating. Wikipedia has no historical details, and a quick Google search + China reveals a bu
by sakai 14y ago
Yes -- would love to hear thoughts from anyone familiar with chrome plating. Wikipedia has no historical details, and a quick Google search + China reveals a bunch of junk and a handful of "Warning Malware" sites. :(
- ars 14y agoI suspect they are simply wrong. Chrome plating requires electricity, which I don't think they had. Search for chrome plating plastic and you'll see - I didn't find any processes at all that did not require electricity. Usually they will plate with something conductive first, then chrome on top. They may have plated it with other things and Time doesn't realize it's not all called "chrome". See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroless_nickel_plating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroless_nickel_plating for an example method - although probably not the one they used. And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plating http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plating for a larger list of metals. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinplate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinplate seems most probable due to its long history and that tin is one of the earlier metals that humans mined.