Blue Steel or blue steel may refer to:
Science, technology and engineering
* Blue steel, a
tempering color of steel
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Bluing (steel)
Bluing is a passivation process in which steel is partially protected against rust using a black oxide coating. It is named after the blue-black appearance of the resulting protective finish. Bluing involves an electrochemical conversion coati ...
, a process in which steel is partially protected against rust
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Martensite, a crystalline form of steel
* , a black oxide that may form when iron is heated
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Blue Steel (missile), a British Cold War nuclear missile
Film
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''Blue Steel'' (1934 film), 1934 western starring John Wayne
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R.O.T.O.R.
''R.O.T.O.R.'' (also known as ''Blue Steel'' and ''R.O.T.O.R.: Police Force'') is a 1987 American science fiction action film starring Richard Gesswein, Jayne Smith and Margaret Trigg. The film has been described as a low-budget copy of ''The Te ...
'', a 1987 science fiction/action film also known as ''Blue Steel''
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''Blue Steel'' (1990 film), American action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow
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Blue Steel Pose
''Zoolander'' is a 2001 American comedy film directed by and starring Ben Stiller. The film contains elements from a pair of short films directed by Russell Bates and written by Drake Sather and Stiller for the ''VH1 Fashion Awards'' televisio ...
, Derek Zoolander's trademark look in ''Zoolander'' and ''Zoolander 2''
Other uses
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Blue Steel, canceled DC video games by Factor 5
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Blue Steel guitar strings, made by Dean Markley Strings
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Tar Heel Blue Steel, a basketball team
See also
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Steel blue, a shade of blue that resembles blue steel
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Blue Stahli, a Detroit, Michigan-based electronic rock project (Stahl is a Germanic root word for steel)
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Arpeggio of Blue Steel'', a 2014 manga and anime series
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Marking blue
Marking out a metal bar
Marking blue or layout stain (sometimes called ''Dykem'' after trademark erosion of a popular brand, or ''Prussian blue'' after the blue pigment) is a dye used in metalworking to aid in marking out rough parts for furth ...
, a dye used in metalworking to aid in marking out rough parts for further machining
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Engineer's blue
Engineer's blue (also known as scraping blue, Prussian blue, or simply bluing) is a highly pigmented paste used to assist in the mating of two or more components.
History
Joseph Whitworth popularized the first practical method of making accurat ...
, for the purposes of layout or flattening, respectively, which is also referred to as bluing
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