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The 7th William Blum Lecture, Metallurgical Aspects of Electrodeposits

Experimental studies by many investigators, particularly in the last two decades, have shown that electrodeposited metals and alloys exhibit a remarkable range of metallurgical properties, depending on the bath composition and the plating conditions. Frequently the relationships between the properties are not those commonly observed in materials prepared in other ways. This is a circumstance upon which electroplaters should capitalize, particularly in electroforming, where the significance of metallurgical properties is more readily recognized and more widely appreciated than in decorative and protective plating. But metallurgy is important here also, for fine structure and microtopography are surely intimately connected with appearance of deposits and probably with corrosion resistance.

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