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How to pronounce bluing in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms blueing
Type of chemical action, chemical change, chemical process
Derivation blue
Type Words
Synonyms blue, blueing
Type of dye, dyestuff

Examples of bluing

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Another pair of Chinooks lifted above the haze and into the steadily bluing sky.
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Apply it with a whitewash brush, adding bluing if you desire a really white look.
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Small collectibles include clothespins, found in many shapes, and bluing paddles.
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Each piece was treated with a special bluing process to give it a deep color.
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Putting food coloring or laundry bluing in the water will increase the water's temperature.
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The cap does not have a strong bluing reaction upon injury-only the margin stains slightly green-blue.
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Above a blank, black landscape and below a gently bluing night sky, the horizon burned, moving slowly from raw sienna to orange blush.
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That's long enough that the bluing has mostly worn off the receiver and every other metal part that I handle regularly while hunting.
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Possession and use of psilocybin mushrooms, including the bluing species of Psilocybe, is therefore prohibited by extension.
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More examples
  • Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
  • A process that makes something blue (or bluish)
  • 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 (often synthetic ultramarine, sometimes Prussian blue) to the fabric.
  • 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. ...
  • Blued is the Bluetooth daemon in Mac OS X. It is started by the system and is not interacted with directly by the user. The daemon handles service discovery, link key management and incoming connection acceptance.
  • (Blued) A surface darkened in color by a sand-blast abrasive
  • (Blued) To have been murdered.
  • Process of applying finish to un-plated carbon steel putters or wedges. The resulting finish is a deep blue color and resists rust. Bluing is also the liquid used in the process itself.
  • A treatment of the surface of iron-base alloys, usually in the form of sheet or strip, on which, by the action of air or steam at a suitable temperature, a thin blue oxide film is formed on the initially scale-free surface, as a means of improving appearance and resistance to corrosion. ...