Electroplating vs. Galvanisation

Electroplatingnoun

A process of coating the surfaces of a metal object with a layer of a different metal through electrochemical means, usually to exploit different properties of the materials.

Electroplatingnoun

The art or process of depositing a coating (commonly) of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of an electric current. The metal to be deposited on an article is usually used as the anode and the article to be plated as the cathode, in an electrolyte solution in which the plating metal is the cation. The process is conducted in a tank called an electroplating bath, which holds the electrolyte solution.

Electroplating

Electroplating is a general name for processes that create a metal coating on a solid substrate through the reduction of cations of that metal by means of a direct electric current. The part to be coated acts as the cathode (negative electrode) of an electrolytic cell; the electrolyte is a solution of a salt of the metal to be coated; and the anode (positive electrode) is usually either a block of that metal, or of some inert conductive material.

Galvanisationnoun

stimulation with a galvanic current

Galvanisationnoun

stimulation that arouses a person to lively action;

Galvanisationnoun

either the work of covering with metal by the use of a galvanic current or the coating of iron with zinc to protect it from rusting