1) Blue 2) Blueing 3) Cleaning product 4) Coloring in laundry 5) Dyestuff 6) Industrial coating 7) Laundry item, once 8) Laundry whitener 9) Making indistinct 10) Wash whitener
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1) Blueing
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[fabric] Bluing, laundry blue, dolly blue or washing blue is a household product used to improve the appearance of textiles, especially white fabrics. Used during laundering, it adds a trace of blue dye (often synthetic ultramarine, sometimes Prussian blue) to the fabric. == Uses == White fabrics acquire a slight color cast after use (usual...
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[steel] Bluing is a passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust, and is named after the blue-black appearance of the resulting protective finish. True gun bluing is an electrochemical conversion coating resulting from an oxidizing chemical reaction with iron on the surface selectively forming magnetite (Fe3O4), th...
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• (n.) Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen. • (n.) The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel. • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blue
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Blu'ing noun 1. The act of rendering blue; as, the
bluing of steel.
Tomlinson. 2. Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.
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n] - used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge 2. [n] - a process that makes something blue (or bluish)
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Subjecting the scale-free surface of a ferrous alloy to the action of air, steam, or other agents at a suitable temperature, thus forming a thin blue film of oxide and improving the appearance and resistance to corrosion. NOTE: This term is ordinarily applied to sheet, strip, or finished parts, It is used also to denote the heating of springs after...
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blueing noun a process that makes something blue (or bluish)
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Blue mold found in blue cheeses.
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a substance, as indigo, used to whiten clothes or give them a bluish tinge.
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Subjecting the scale-free surface of a ferrous alloy to the action of air, steam, or other agents at a suitable temperature, thus forming a thin blue film of oxide and improving the appearance and resistance to corrosion. NOTE: This term is ordinarily applied to sheet, strip, or finished parts, It is used also to denote the heating of springs after...
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