#materials engineering

• Silvering — The act of silver-plating and its result; a technological, mechanical, or chemical process through which an object is coated with a fine layer of silver; silver-plating. In an artisan and industrial sense, it represents a substantivized long infinitive form used to record the plating of surfaces for decorative, protective, or reflective purposes in the mirror or precision components industry.
• Self-dissolution — The act of self-dissolving and its result; an autonomous physical-chemical process of degradation and liquefaction of a substance, or a political act whereby a collective body (parliament, committee, association) ceases its legal existence by its own will.
• Self-welding — The act of self-welding and its result; an autonomous physical, chemical, or metallurgical process through which two identical or compatible metallic or polymeric surfaces join tightly, achieving a continuous structural bond under the action of heat, high pressure, or internal molecular reactions without the addition of external filler material or manual welding intervention.
• To self-vulcanize — To undergo or subject an elastic material (especially raw rubber, polymer mixtures, or silicones) to the process of vulcanization at room temperature or under normal ambient conditions, without external heat or high artificial pressure, utilizing chemical agents, catalysts, or atmospheric humidity.