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For a small quantity. Heat the steel to a cherry red in a charcoal fire, then bury it in sawdust, in an iron 3290. Το Make Polished Steel Straw Color or Blue. The surface of polished steel acquires a pale straw color at 460° Fahr., and a uniform deep blue at 580° Fahr.

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