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n. Any of various coloring agents used to counteract the yellowing of laundered fabrics.

n. A rinsing agent used to give a silver tint to gray or graying hair.

v. Present participle of blue.

n. A substance used in laundry to whiten clothes; blue

n. Any of several processes to protect steel against rust

n. The act of rendering blue.

n. Something, as indigo or other preparations, used to give a bluish tint, especially to white clothing when being washed.

n. The act of making blue; specifically, the process of giving a blue color to iron and other metals by heating.

n. A blue tint given to iron by boiling in a bath of hyposulphite of soda and acetate of lead.

n. The indigo, soluble Prussian blue, or other material, used in the laundry to give a bluish tint to linen. Also spelled blueing.

n. A disease of pine timber which causes it to assume a blue color. It is due to the pyrenomycetous fungus, Ceratostomella pilifera.

n. a process that makes something blue (or bluish)

n. used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge

"All Answers from Sourdough Dave wrote 3 weeks 6 days ago bluing is a controlled oxidation of the steel so the surface has a bluish luster and by already being oxidized prevents that other form of oxidation called rust."

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