ANNEALING

Annealing

Annealing, in metallurgy and materials science, is a heat treatment that alters a material to increase its ductility and to make it more workable. It involves heating a material to above its critical temperature, maintaining a suitable temperature, and then cooling. Annealing can induce ductility, soften material, relieve internal stresses, refine the structure by making it homogeneous, and improve cold working properties.

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annealing

Noun

  1. The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.
    Without annealing, the quality of our metal products will diminish.

Verb

annealing



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