A piece of plastic goes in, a piece of metal comes out. At least, that’s what vapour metallising seems to accomplish, at least to our immediate senses. It’s gilding, except it’s been updated for the electronics age. And it’s everywhere.
Welcome to Vocab Lesson, Gizmodo’s new weekly column on words – the ones you’ve heard, but can’t quite define, or the ones you haven’t, but might like to hear about. This week’s lesson: thermocouples! (Huh?)
