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 co ...
, a process in which steel is partially protected against rust
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Martensite
Martensite is a very hard form of steel crystalline structure. It is named after German metallurgist Adolf Martens. By analogy the term can also refer to any crystal structure that is formed by diffusionless transformation.
Properties
Ma ...
, a crystalline form of steel
* , a black oxide that may form when iron is heated
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Blue Steel (missile)
The Avro Blue Steel was a British air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear armed standoff missile, built to arm the V bomber force. It allowed the bomber to launch the missile against its target while still outside the range of surface-to-air mi ...
, 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
Dean Markley Strings is an American company that manufactures musical instrument-related products, primarily strings for acoustic and electric guitars, classical guitars, and bass guitars. The company also produces pick ups, amplifiers, and ...
, made by Dean Markley Strings
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Tar Heel Blue Steel
Tar is a dark brown or black viscous liquid of hydrocarbons and free carbon, obtained from a wide variety of organic materials through destructive distillation. Tar can be produced from coal, wood, petroleum, or peat. "a dark brown or black bit ...
, 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 accura ...
, for the purposes of layout or flattening, respectively, which is also referred to as bluing
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