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MANY attempts to plate other metals upon aluminium “have been tried, but although apparent success has—for a short time—attended some of these efforts, the film of metal plated on has not been of such a nature as to stand wear or rough usage Messrs. C. F. Burgess and Carl Hambuechen publish a new method in the March number of Electrochemical Industry. The difficulty of plating on aluminium is generally, and probably correctly, attributed to the invisible film which forms upon that metal when exposed to air. Therefore most of the methods previously described depend upon the removal (or attempted removal) of this film by means of solvents, such as acids or alkaline hydroxides, and the rapid transference from the pickling to the plating bath.
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P., F. Plating upon Aluminium . Nature 69, 622 (1904). https://doi.org/10.1038/069622a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/069622a0