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Large scale industrial hot bluing is often performed using a bluing furnace. This is an alternative method for creating the black oxide coating. In place of using a hot bath (although at a lower temperature) chemically induced method, it is possible through controlling the temperature to heat steel precisely such as to cause the formation of ...
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.
Nitre, or potassium nitrate, because of its early and global use and production, has many names. As for nitrate, Egyptian and Hebrew words for it had the consonants n-t-r, indicating likely cognation in the Greek nitron, which was Latinised to nitrum or nitrium. Thence Old French had niter and Middle English nitre.
Niter or nitre [5] is the mineral form of potassium nitrate, KNO 3.It is a soft, white, highly soluble mineral found primarily in arid climates or cave deposits. Historically, the term niter was not well differentiated from natron, both of which have been very vaguely defined but generally refer to compounds of sodium or potassium joined with carbonate or nitrate ions.
An Idaho woman was issued a citation after she was forcibly removed from an Idaho Republican legislative town hall after interrupting the speaker. KTVB's Abby Wilt reports.
Mrs. Stewart's Bluing once attempted to change the photo on the label to appear "kinder looking," but customers demanded the stern faced matron be returned to the label. The Stewarts sold the rights to manufacture their product to Luther Ford of Minneapolis, Minnesota , in 1883. [ 7 ]
My dad was a closed-off man, but he expressed himself in little notes. Days after he died, I got a Valentine's Day card from him that made me rethink love.
There’s nothing quite like a warm, steaming cup of hot chocolate on a cold winter day — even more so if you’ve topped it with marshmallows, whipped cream, chocolate shavings… or all of those!