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Tempering vs Annealing - What's the difference?

tempering | annealing |

As verbs the difference between tempering and annealing

is that tempering is while annealing is .

As nouns the difference between tempering and annealing

is that tempering is the act by which something is tempered while annealing is the act of heating solid metal or glass to high temperatures and cooling it slowly so that its particles arrange into a defined lattice.

tempering

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act by which something is tempered.
  • * 1872 , Louis Emmanuel Gruner, The Manufacture of Steel (page 29)
    • Caron has, in fact, discovered this very curious circumstance, that a bar of steel becomes shorter under successive temperings , while it increases in size, laterally, in such a manner, that there actually is an increase of volume.

    annealing

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.

    Derived terms

    * simulated annealing

    References

    * Parthasarathy, S. and Chandrasekharan Rajendran, "A simulated annealing heuristic for scheduling to minimize mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with mean weighted tardiness in a flowshop with sequence-dependent setup times of jobs—a case study". Production Planning & Control , 1997, 8(5), 476.

    Verb

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