heat treatment
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heat treatment (countable and uncountable, plural heat treatments)
- The process of modifying the physical or chemical properties of a material (especially a metal) via either heating or cooling.
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- “heat treatment, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
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- heat treatment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia