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ausglühen — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • anneal 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.

Senses

ausglühen is used for these senses in English:

  • anneal (metallurgy) 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.
  • calcine (physical chemistry) To heat (a substance) without melting in order to drive off water, etc., and to oxidize or reduce it; specifically, to decompose (carbonates) into oxides, and, especially, to heat (limestone) to form quicklime.

anneal — full definition

  1. 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.
  2. verb To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
  3. verb To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
  4. verb To make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.

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