ANNEALING
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Definition
verb
- To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen.
- To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
- To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
noun
- The heating of 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.”
Source: Wiktionary
