Coslettize
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Coslett + -ize. Named after British chemist Thomas Watts Coslett, who developed an early phosphate coating technique.
Verb
[edit]Coslettize (third-person singular simple present Coslettizes, present participle Coslettizing, simple past and past participle Coslettized)
- (transitive, dated, metallurgy) To apply a coating of phosphate to the surface of (iron or steel) to protect from corrosion.
- Hypernym: phosphatize
- Coordinate term: parkerize
Further reading
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “Coslettize”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.