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How to pronounce anneal in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms normalize, temper
Type of harden, indurate

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These thinner copper nanorods fuse together, or anneal, at about 300 degrees Celsius.
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It is often used to anneal metal, making it more malleable and flexible during the welding process.
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One method often employed is to melt the reactants together and then later anneal the solidified melt.
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Around that temperature, the thin nanorods anneal, turn into a continuous thin film, and fuse the layers together.
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The temperature required to anneal steel depends on the type of annealing and the constituents of the alloy.
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The sample DNA and the probe DNA are then co-denatured using a heated plate and allowed to re-anneal for at least 4 hours.
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In one scenario, long exposure to heat from an infant star might anneal some of the silicate dust inside the disk's center.
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However, it is not possible to anneal the metal oxides, an active material, at this high temperature on flexible polymer substrates.
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Unlike ferrous metals-which must be cooled slowly to anneal-copper can be cooled slowly in air or quickly by quenching in water.
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More examples
  • Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling; "temper glass"
  • (annealing) hardening something by heat treatment
  • (Annealing (glass)) Annealing is a process of slowly cooling glass to relieve internal stresses after it was formed. The process may be carried out in a temperature-controlled kiln known as a Lehr. ...
  • (Annealing (metallurgy)) Annealing, in metallurgy and materials science, is a heat treatment wherein a material is altered, causing changes in its properties such as strength and hardness. ...
  • (Annealing (nucleic acid)) Nucleic acid thermodynamics is the study of the thermodynamics of nucleic acid molecules, or how temperature affects nucleic acid structure. ...
  • To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen; To strengthen or harden
  • (annealing) The act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice
  • (Annealed) To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness.
  • (Annealed) The condition of a fastener when it has been heated then cooled to make it soft or less brittle.