denudation, stripping, uncovering, baring, husking(noun)

the removal of covering

Stripping(u)

of Strip

Stripping(noun)

the act of one who strips

Stripping(noun)

the last milk drawn from a cow at a milking

Stripping

The removal of electroplating from an object. It may be effected in several ways. An object whose plating is to be removed is placed in a plating bath of the solution of the metal with which it is coated. It is connected as the anode to the positive plate of the battery or corresponding terminal of the generator. A kathode connected to the other terminal being placed in the bath, the coating is dissolved by electrolytic action. Sometimes simple treatment with acid is employed. Different stripping baths are described under the heads of the different metals.