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Rust bluing is also used on shotgun barrels that are soldered to the rib between the barrels, as hot bluing solutions melt the solder during the bluing process. Large scale industrial hot bluing is often performed using a bluing furnace. This is an alternative method for creating the black oxide coating.
Bluing or blueing: A passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust, and is named after the blue-black appearance of the resulting protective finish. True gun bluing is an electrochemical conversion coating resulting from an oxidizing chemical reaction with iron on the surface selectively forming magnetite (Fe 3 O 4 ...
In the process of bluing, an oxidizing chemical reaction on an iron surface selectively forms magnetite (Fe 3 O 4), the black oxide of iron (as opposed to rust, the red oxide of iron (Fe 2 O 3)). Black oxide provides some protection against corrosion if also treated with a water-displacing oil to reduce wetting and galvanic action.
Black oxide is but one type of bluing for firearms; there are other types of bluing used on firearms, too. (Hot bluing vs. cold bluing, and hot bluing versus "hot and cold" mixed bluing, for example.) Black oxide is also used to refer to thicker bluing that is black oxide based.
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Bluing (steel) is a passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust Bluing may also refer to: Bluing (fabric), a blue dye used to improve the appearance of fabrics; Bluing (hair), a blue dye used to improve the appearance of hair "bluing" of machine parts to check for tolerances, see engineer's blue
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