Etching (disambiguation)
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Etching may refer to:
- Etching, a printmaking technique in art
- Etching (glass), a glass decoration technique
- Industrial etching
- Etching (microfabrication), a process in producing microelectronics, which term covers:
- ferric chloride is used as an etchant for copper-based metals in printed circuit boards.
NB: all of the above can be called Chemical etching, though the term is mostly used for Industrial etching. An etcher is most likely to mean a printmaker. An etchant is any chemical used to etch, but probably refers to an industrial process.