Pickle

{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-004287",
  "term": "Pickle",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "To clean the surface of metal by immersing it in an acid solution to remove scale, rust, and other impurities. This chemical process prepares the metal for subsequent operations such as galvanizing, plating, or painting. Pickling is a common pretreatment in many metal finishing industries.",
  "subject": "Metalworking",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Beize",
    "es": "decapado",
    "fr": "décapage"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/pickle/"
}