Heated and slowly cooled in a controlled way to remove stress and increase strength in glass or metal.
Past participle of 'anneal,' from Old English 'onælan'; describes the final state of material that has undergone the annealing process.
When you anneal something, you're basically letting the atoms in the material relax into their happy places—it's like giving stressed-out molecules a spa day!
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