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bluing
or blue·ing
[ bloo-ing ]
noun
, Chemistry.
- a substance, as indigo, used to whiten clothes or give them a bluish tinge.
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Two or three squeezes of a bluing ball, or a teaspoonful of liquid bluing is often a sufficient quantity for a tub of water.
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The bluing, consists in heating the piece till its copper or brass colour changes to blue.
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Bluing is used to neutralize the slightly yellowish tint of the fabric, when it cannot be completely bleached.
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The colour reminds one of his boyhood when he interviewed the bluing water in the family wash-tub.
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Dan was formerly a peddler of various kinds of flavoring extracts, ink and bluing.
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