blueing
Britishnoun
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a blue material, such as indigo, used in laundering to counteract yellowing
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the formation of a film of blue oxide on a steel surface
Example Sentences
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Wash blue, or blueing, is a laundry product with iron powder and just a hint of blue dye.
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2021
The Glen Alden Coal Co. of Buffalo and Rochester, N. Y., has made the last wash a blueing process.
From Time Magazine Archive
This circumstance has led Sociologists Peter and Brigitte Berger to suggest that if what Charles Reich calls "the greening of America" goes on apace, it may shade into a "blueing of America."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fill another test tube to the brim with water, colored with a little blueing.
From Common Science by John W. (John Woodside) Ritchie
The head laundress, who personally “did up” the finest pieces in “the wash,” found her pile of them deluged with blueing, so that her work had to be done all over again.
From Dorothy at Oak Knowe by Evelyn Raymond
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