Silvering Definition

Silvering Sentence Examples

• Oil of cloves is used in the silvering of mirror glasses.

• Another was hunch-backed and dressed in heavy robes despite the heat of the day, and a third man barely taller than her had white irises and silvering hair.

• Sirian edged closer, his wise gaze and silvering hair the only signs of aging on his otherwise lean frame.

• These three adjustments having been made, the prisms P3 and P4 are removed and replaced by another prism in which the silvering is arranged as in fig.

• The principle of applying metallic films to glass seems to have been known to the Romans and even to the Egyptians, and is mentioned by Alexander Neckam in the 12th century, but it would appear that it was not until the 16th century that the process of " silvering " mirrors by the use of an amalgam of tin and mercury had been perfected.