Blue Steel
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Blue Steel may mean:
- Tar Heel Blue Steel, basketball team
- MartensiteMartensiteMartensite, named after the German metallurgist Adolf Martens , most commonly refers to a very hard form of steel crystalline structure, but it can also refer to any crystal structure that is formed by displacive transformation. It includes a class of hard minerals occurring as lath- or...
, a crystalline form of steel - Bluing (steel)Bluing (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...
, a process in which steel is partially-protected against rust - Blue Steel (1934 film)Blue Steel (1934 film)Blue Steel is a 1934 Western film in which John Wayne plays a U.S. Marshal who is trying to capture the Polka Dot Bandit, who has taken off with $4,000.The film is also sometimes referred to as An Innocent Man in the USA.-Plot:...
, 1934 western starring John Wayne - Blue Steel (1990 film)Blue Steel (1990 film)Blue Steel is a 1990 action thriller film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown.-Plot:Megan Turner is a rookie New York City policewoman who shoots and kills a suspect with her police-issue .38 Special Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver while he's...
, 1990 thriller starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña and Louise Fletcher - Blue Steel missileBlue Steel missileThe Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force. It was the primary British nuclear deterrent weapon until the Royal Navy started operating Polaris missile armed nuclear submarines....
, the British Cold War nuclear missile - Steel blueSteel blueSteel blue is a shade of blue that resembles blue steel, i.e., steel which has been subjected to bluing in order to protect it from rust. It is one of the less vibrant shades of blue; usually identified as somewhat bluish-grey....
, the color - Blue Steel is the name of a pose in the movie ZoolanderZoolanderZoolander is a 2001 American satirical comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the VH1 Fashion Awards television specials in 1996 and 1997. The short films and the...
- Blue Steel guitar strings made by Dean Markley Strings, Inc.
- Bluesteel is the name of a 1720 Keelboat sailed in Schull, Co. Cork, Ireland