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annealing

annealing

1 7.7
Heating metal or glass and then cooling it slowly to make it less brittle
  • noun
  • /əˈniːlɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : recocido
  • Claire had perfected the blue she wanted and figured out a way to texture the vases using the annealing process.
  • annealing temperature
  • simulated annealing

Examples

  • The three curves shown are for annealing temperatures of 120°C (blue), 360°C (green), and 380°C (red).

    Academic text (2004)
  • The completed blank is broken free of the Ponte and placed in an annealing oven for slow cooling.

  • Properly threaded tubes are taken to annealing ovens.

    Academic text (1995)
  • Work on the successful preparation of high-performance PI fibers with this gradient thermal annealing process is shown later.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The sonic velocity variation suggests the structural variation of the fibers during the thermal annealing process.

    Academic text (2018)
  • For the optimization of the ccta gene, the annealing temperature was set in the range of 47-52°C.

    Academic text (2014)
  • All PCRs were run by using standard methods and optimized annealing temperatures of 55°C through 65°C.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The same RT-PCR and sequencing methods were used, except that the annealing temperature was 50°C and the extension time was 1 min.

    Academic text (2012)
  • The metal underwent annealing to improve its toughness and reduce its brittleness.

  • After the glass was shaped, it required annealing in a specialized oven for better durability.

Antonyms

1 5.4

Hard and breaks easily, like glass

3.2

A process that makes a person or thing less strong

Compounds

8.2

A large bell-shaped oven that heats steel strips to remove hardening and make them softer

How Heat-Treated

hardening
1 4.6
tempering
  • Specialized
6.1
annealing
  • Specialized
1 7.7
heating
23 1.0
warming
354 1.8

Surface Forms

annealing singular
annealings plural

Morphology

annealing = anneal (transparent) = anneal + ing

Formed by the verb 'anneal' plus the productive nominal/gerundial suffix '-ing', expressing the process or action.

Etymology

Annealing can be remembered like a kind of healing for metal and glass: a helpful image is that heating and then slowly cooling a material 'heals' its weak spots and makes it less brittle.