Metallize

Alternative forms

• metalize, metallise, metalise

Full definition of metallize

Verb

1. To coat, treat or impregnate a non-metallic object with metal.
• 1879 , Th Du Moncel , The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.