Bluing
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Bluing may refer to:
- Bluing (fabric)Bluing (fabric)Bluing, laundry 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 to the fabric.- Uses :White fabrics acquire a slight color cast after use , because they can never be cleaned...
, household product used to improve the appearance of fabrics - 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...
, passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust - "bluing" of machine parts to check for tolerances, see engineer's blueEngineer's blueEngineer's blue is a highly pigmented paste used to assist in the mating of two or more components.Joseph Whitworth popularized the first practical method of making accurate flat surfaces, during the 1830s, by using engineer's blue and scraping techniques on three trial surfaces...
- Mrs. Stewart's BluingMrs. Stewart's BluingMrs. Stewart's Bluing is a brand of fabric bluing agent which whitens fabrics with a dye called Prussian blue ....
, brand of fabric bluing agent that whitens fabrics by adding a blue dye