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blueing::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bluing |
| Type of | chemical action, chemical change, chemical process |
Examples of blueing
blueing
The work they do includes rebuilding a gun's stocks, hardening the frame, blueing the trigger and rebrowning, reboring and repolishing the barrels.
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Steel plate armour for Henry II of France made in 1555 is covered with meticulous embossing, which has been subjected to blueing, silvering and gilding.
From the en.wikipedia.org
- Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
- Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
- Turn blue
- Blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
- Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
- Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
- Blue is the colour between violet and green on the optical spectrum of visible light. Human eyes perceive blue when observing light with a wavelength between 450 and 495 nanometres. Blues with a higher frequency and thus a shorter wavelength gradually look more violet, while those with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gradually appear more green...
- The Kalvertoren, a shopping center in Amsterdam, is located on Kalverstraat, Amsterdam's busiest shopping street.
- Blue is the twelfth and final feature film by director Derek Jarman, released just four months before his death by AIDS-related complications. Such complications had already rendered him partially blind at the time of the film's release.
