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  2. Sharpening stone - Wikipedia

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    Roughly sharpening a blunt edge 1000-2000: 8 μm: Fine, will leave a blade sharper than most factory edges 4,000: 4 μm: Ultra-fine, for cutting meat 8,000: 2 μm: Further smoothing a sharp edge for cutting fish or vegetables (sinews in meat will bend an edge this sharp) 10,000: 0.5 μm: Polishing an edge to a mirror-smooth (but possibly ...

  3. Sharpening - Wikipedia

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    The substance on the sharpening surface must be harder (hardness is measured on the Mohs scale) than the material being sharpened; diamond is extremely hard, making diamond dust very effective for sharpening, though expensive; less costly, but less hard, abrasives are available, such as synthetic and natural Japanese water-stones. Several ...

  4. Knife sharpening - Wikipedia

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    Knife sharpener in Kabul, Afghanistan (1961) The Knife Grinder by Massimiliano Soldani (c.1700), Albertinum, Dresden A railway camp cook sharpens a knife blade on a stone wheel, 1927 Knife sharpening is the process of making a knife or similar tool sharp by grinding against a hard , rough surface, typically a stone , [ 1 ] or a flexible surface ...

  5. Polishing (metalworking) - Wikipedia

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    There is a visible difference in cleanliness and color. The piece held above the two bowls has also been polished. (These pieces are part of an 18th-century silver epergne in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art). Buffing are finishing processes for smoothing a workpiece's surface using an abrasive and a work wheel or a leather strop.

  6. Chemical-mechanical polishing - Wikipedia

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    Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) (also called chemical mechanical planarization) is a process of smoothing surfaces with the combination of chemical and mechanical forces. It can be thought of as a hybrid of chemical etching and free abrasive polishing. [ 1 ]

  7. Smoothing - Wikipedia

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    Smoothing may be distinguished from the related and partially overlapping concept of curve fitting in the following ways: . curve fitting often involves the use of an explicit function form for the result, whereas the immediate results from smoothing are the "smoothed" values with no later use made of a functional form if there is one;

  8. Abrasive - Wikipedia

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    Abrasives generally rely upon a difference in hardness between the abrasive and the material being worked upon, the abrasive being the harder of the two substances. However, it is not strictly necessary, as any two solid materials that repeatedly rub against each other will tend to wear each other away; examples include, softer shoe soles wearing away wooden or stone steps over decades or ...

  9. Leveling and sharpening - Wikipedia

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    Leveling and sharpening are two functions that are automatic and exist within memory. Sharpening is usually the way people remember small details in the retelling of stories they have experienced or are retelling those stories. Leveling is when people keep out parts of stories and try to tone those stories down so that some parts are excluded ...