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Whitening, Whitener or Whiten may refer to:

Processes or techniques

• Cloud whitening, a proposed solar radiation management climate engineering technique
• Key whitening, increasing the security of a cryptographic cipher
• Racial whitening, an ideology in Brazil 1889–1914
  • Blanqueamiento, the practice of marrying whiter people in order to have whiter offspring
• Signal whitening, decorrelation in signal processing
• Skin whitening, using chemical substances to lighten the skin
• Software whitening, an approach to coping with bias in random number generation
• Tooth whitening, in dentistry
• Whitening (leather processing), a leather production process
• Whitening transformation, in mathematics

People

• Basil Lee Whitener (1915–1989), an American politician
• Andrew Whiten (born 1948), a British zoologist and psychologist
• Colette Whiten (born 1945), Canadian sculptor and artist
• Mark Whiten (born 1966), American baseball player

Other uses

• Non-dairy creamer, commonly called tea whitener or coffee whitener
• Optical brightener, an additive used to enhance the appearance of colour of fabric and paper
• Stress-whitening, where a white line appears when a material is stressed by bending or punching

See also

• All pages with titles containing whiten
• All pages with titles containing whitener
• All pages with titles containing whitening
• Albicans (disambiguation)
• Whitten (disambiguation)
• Whiten v Pilot Insurance Co, 2002 Supreme Court of Canada case

• Disambiguation pages
• Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists