bluing

/bloo-ing/US // ˈblu ɪŋ //

熏制,熏蒸,熏陶,熏染

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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

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