annealing

verb

Meaning

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.
To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
To strengthen or harden.
The heating of solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.

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