What's the difference between bluing and steel?

Bluing


Definition:

  • (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blue
  • (n.) The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
  • (n.) Something to give a bluish tint, as indigo, or preparations used by washerwomen.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this study, RBCs from bluetongue (BLU) virus-infected sheep were adsorbed directly onto Formvar-coated, gold electron microscope grids.
  • (2) The David Lynch limited-edition box set is available on Blu-ray and DVD from 4 June, courtesy of Universal Pictures
  • (3) The dominant and recessive natures of the resistant (blu(r)) and susceptible (blu(s)) alleles were determined by the sex of the parent.
  • (4) The revelation was contained in comments McKellen made on the extended edition of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, recently released on DVD and Blu-Ray.
  • (5) The pilot for the plan is The Dark Knight , Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman blockbuster – currently No 7 on the list of all-time box-office grossers, and holder of several sales records for DVD and Blu-Ray.
  • (6) Release of histamine occurred at tick feeding sites, but vasoactive effects were blocked by mepyramine treatment as evidenced by a lack of increased vascular permeability (bluing) at these sites compared with non-tick-infested tissues, or to cutaneous basophil hypersensitivity (CBH) sites of animals not protected with mepyramine.
  • (7) The first survey showed that BLU group antibody in cattle 18-24 months old was confined to the coastal regions (east of the Great Dividing Range) and the Hunter Valley.
  • (8) In addition to the standard CD, vinyl and digital versions, there will be a deluxe edition, with three bonus tracks, and a special Japanese Blu-Spec , with four extra songs.
  • (9) A report released last week by the BFI indicated that, while actual sales are falling, DVDs and Blu-ray remain the film industry's largest single revenue source, bringing in £1.3bn a year.
  • (10) An extended version of The Class Of '92 will be released on Blu-ray in early June
  • (11) If somebody’s taken the bother to email – they’ve gone off YouTube to our website, found the contact page and written an email – they deserve to get something back.” Children’s videos are huge on YouTube, with six of its top 10 channels in January aimed at kids: toy-unboxing channels Funtoys Collector and Blu Toys ; Minecraft gamer Stampy ; Little Baby Bum; and two Russian animation channels, Masha and the Bear and GetMovies .
  • (12) Like the native purple membrane, the blu membrane showed proton pumping activity upon illumination in phospholipid vesicles.
  • (13) If the antigenic BLU virus particles (which may be viral cores) are in fact infectious, this method of sequestration of virus within RBCs could contribute to the prolonged viremia typical of this arboviral disease, which is known to occur concurrently with circulating neutralizing antibody.
  • (14) Announced at last on Blu Ray by Network, it was Linda Fiorentino's finest hour and should have left Basic Instinct where it belonged, sucking dust.
  • (15) Fun Toyz Collector is the biggest channel of all on YouTube with 427m views in February alone , with peers It’s Baby Big Mouth and Blu Toys notching up 228m and 205m views respectively that month.
  • (16) Mali hotel attack – in pictures Read more Two gunmen with Kalashnikov assault rifles and explosives ran into the Radisson Blu hotel before 7am last Friday, striking just as security guards were about to change shifts.
  • (17) A close association was observed between strong group antibody reactions and type-specific neutralizing activity against BLU-1 and BLU-21.
  • (18) It is like Blu-Tack, but it sets," said Ni Dhulchaointigh.
  • (19) Subsequent steps are: washing; bluing in ammonia water for 1 minutes; washing again and staining in 1% eosin Y alcoholic solution for 5 minutes; rinsing in 100% ethanol; drying and mounting with Permont.
  • (20) The last two mentioned clones showed to be good group-specific probes for the identification of BLU samples from Israel and United States.

Steel


Definition:

  • (n.) A variety of iron intermediate in composition and properties between wrought iron and cast iron (containing between one half of one per cent and one and a half per cent of carbon), and consisting of an alloy of iron with an iron carbide. Steel, unlike wrought iron, can be tempered, and retains magnetism. Its malleability decreases, and fusibility increases, with an increase in carbon.
  • (n.) An instrument or implement made of steel
  • (n.) A weapon, as a sword, dagger, etc.
  • (n.) An instrument of steel (usually a round rod) for sharpening knives.
  • (n.) A piece of steel for striking sparks from flint.
  • (n.) Fig.: Anything of extreme hardness; that which is characterized by sternness or rigor.
  • (n.) A chalybeate medicine.
  • (n.) To overlay, point, or edge with steel; as, to steel a razor; to steel an ax.
  • (n.) To make hard or strong; hence, to make insensible or obdurate.
  • (n.) Fig.: To cause to resemble steel, as in smoothness, polish, or other qualities.
  • (n.) To cover, as an electrotype plate, with a thin layer of iron by electrolysis. The iron thus deposited is very hard, like steel.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It was found that there is a significant difference in bond strengths between enamel and stainless steel with strength to enamel the greater.
  • (2) By the 1860s, French designs were using larger front wheels and steel frames, which although lighter were more rigid, leading to its nickname of “boneshaker”.
  • (3) Utilization of inert materials like teflon, makrolon, and stainless steel warrants experimental and possibly clinical application of the developed small constrictor.
  • (4) The strongest field distortions and attractive forces occurred with 17-7PH stainless steel clips.
  • (5) A case of a failed total hip replacement consisting of a Vitallium hip socket and a stainless steel femoral head prosthesis is presented.
  • (6) Tata Steel, the owner of Britain’s largest steel works in Port Talbot, is in talks with the government about a similar restructuring for the British Steel pension scheme , which has liabilities of £15bn.
  • (7) The strong magnetic field of the super-conducting MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) apparatus could cause problems in the presence of metallic foreign material, such as the metal clips and loops of intraocular lenses and steel as suturing material.
  • (8) Superman fans are up in arms at the decision of the publisher to appoint a noted anti-gay writer to pen the Man of Steel's latest adventures.
  • (9) It is not same to the stainless steel wire of traditional removable appliances which must be activated every time to produce a little tooth movement.
  • (10) Demolition of a steel railway bridge was carried out by nine workers using flame-torch cutting.
  • (11) The stainless steel 316 mesh tray with cancellous bone offers a method of mandibular reconstruction which theoretically is appealing from the viewpoint of basic osseous healing.
  • (12) Glycaemia, glucosuria, plasma insulin, and the rates of appearance Ra and disappearance Rd of glucose (kinetics of double-labelled glucose, evaluated according to Steele's equation in its non-steady-state version) were observed under the following conditions, starting from normoglycaemia during glucose-controlled insulin infusion (GCII): (I) insulin withdrawal, (II) insulin withdrawal and glucose infusion, (III) constant i.v.
  • (13) Forty-five percutaneous trephine lung biopsies using the Steel apparatus were performed on 38 patients.
  • (14) It remains an open question whether the syndrom of Richardson-Steele-Olszewski is a syndrome of its own or whether it is just a variety of parkinsonism.
  • (15) Three female actors, including former Bond girl Olga Kurylenko , are rumoured to be in the running for the lead female role in the upcoming sequel to superhero reboot Man of Steel, reports Variety .
  • (16) A removable, stainless-steel tube is present around the heated area, and this particular configuration makes it possible to begin every combustion procedure from room temperature, and consequently, to achieve a complete evacuation of air from the line even for heat-labile samples.
  • (17) Since the heart of the MRI is a large magnet, certain metals such as stainless steel can cause artifacts in the images.
  • (18) But over the Christmas period the Cahuzac story has continued to dominate headlines as some newspapers suggested Hollande might have a cabinet reshuffle both to detract from the Mediapart allegations and to draw a line under government disagreements over the handling of France's crisis-hit steel industry.
  • (19) Bipolar stainless steel wire electrodes were placed unilaterally into the costal and crural portions of the diaphragm and into the parasternal intercostal muscle in the second or third intercostal space.
  • (20) The recovery of haemopoiesis in Steel mutant mice following 1 Gy sublethal irradiation is described.

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