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bluing

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blu·ing also blue·ing  (blng)
n.
1. Any of various coloring agents used to counteract the yellowing of laundered fabrics.
2. A rinsing agent used to give a silver tint to gray or graying hair.
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Noun1.bluing - used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge
blueing, blue
dye, dyestuff - a usually soluble substance for staining or coloring e.g. fabrics or hair
2.bluing - a process that makes something blue (or bluish)
blueing
chemical action, chemical change, chemical process - (chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved


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To check for this, the tool must be disassembled and a bluing agent applied near the runner drops.
How to give your parts a blemish-free complexion by Bozzelli, John / Plastics Technology
The largest use of ultramarine blue in rubber is for tinting white rubber compounds, just as bluing is used in washing white shirts.
Selection/use of colorants in dispersions by Miller, Tim / Rubber World
These figures' elaborate coiffures are rubbed with Rickett's bluing, a powdered blue dye used by the British during the colonial period to whiten laundry.
High Museum of Art Atlanta, Georgia by Thompson, Carol / African Arts
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