Etching (disambiguation)

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Etching may refer to:

• Etching, a printmaking technique in art
• Etching (glass), a glass decoration technique
• Etching (metal), a metal decoration technique
• Chemical milling, the use of chemical etching in manufacturing and industry
• Etching (microfabrication), a process in producing microelectronics
• Photochemical machining, with chemicals, using a photoresist
• Etching (glassware), the cloudy appearance of glassware after having gone through multiple dishwasher cycles.

Note that 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 (sometimes mordant) is any chemical used to etch, but probably refers to an industrial process.

See also

• Etch (disambiguation)

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