˜yÐÄvlog

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bluing

or ²ú±ô³Ü±ð·Ÿ±²Ô²µ

[ bloo-ing ]

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a substance, as indigo, used to whiten clothes or give them a bluish tinge.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of bluing1

First recorded in 1660–70; blue + -ing 1
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The colour actually comes from a process that starts with boiling water and grinding laundry bluing cubes, which are usually used to wash white clothes.

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Although Castle made works with color, utilizing a variety of materials that include laundry bluing, watercolor, crayon and even colored ink leached from magazine pages, these are black soot-and-spit.

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Some on Reddit fixed this by sanding theirs down to take the shine off of the finish, and another recommended using an acrylic topcoat and another chemical bluing.

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When a congressional seat opened up in a bluing stretch of Phoenix’s eastern suburbs, Sinema ran and won.

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Increasingly, he said it looks like a policeman: his dark work slacks, the bluing on his revolver, the way the intruder held the silver flashlight over his shoulder.

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