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Burnishing
Bringing the surface of metal to a brilliant finish by friction, the action slightly compressing and hardening the metal surface but removing no metal. The metal surface to be burnished is first cleared of all file marks or scratches. The surface of the appropriately shaped burnisher must always be kept absolutely clean and highly polished, because the burnished surface can never be finer than the surface of the burnisher.
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