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Blueing   /blˈuɪŋ/   Listen
Blueing

noun
1.
Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.  Synonyms: blue, bluing.
2.
A process that makes something blue (or bluish).  Synonym: bluing.






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"Blueing" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the excessive quantities of acetate of soda and the insufficiency of potassium iodide in the cases of c and f, there was no difficulty with the after-blueing. ...
— A Textbook of Assaying: For the Use of Those Connected with Mines. • Cornelius Beringer and John Jacob Beringer

... dyeing an indigo vat with chrome and logwood, as the chromic acid set free during the process is likely to attack and by destroying the indigo to materially reduce the intensity of the blue bottom. Or, after blueing in the vat, the black may be dyed or topped on by the process with copperas, which will ...
— The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics • Franklin Beech



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