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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
anneal .
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Examples
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All I could tell him is that when you see it start to change color, you've permanently altered (as in annealed) the steel.
Barrel Life, Part II 2006
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But the great pressure to which the sheets are subjected makes the alloy very brittle, so that it has to be softened or "annealed," as it is called, by being heated red-hot in very large ovens before each re-rolling.
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I prefer 7.62 NATO cases for reloading because its heavier case and more reloads per case and the necks are annealed.
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All my 25-06 are made out of 30-06 is Military cases that have the necks annealed.
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The necks are already annealed and I get several reloads out of each one.
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All my 25-06 are made out of 30-06 is Military cases that have the necks annealed.
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I prefer 7.62 NATO cases for reloading because its heavier case and more reloads per case and the necks are annealed.
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The necks are already annealed and I get several reloads out of each one.
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Above, annealed neodymium iron boron magnets sit in a barrel prior to being crushed into powder at a Neo Material Technologies Inc. factory in Tianjin, China.
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Both domestic + imported flat glass has increased at least 60% for annealed (raw) flat glass costs in the past 5 years.
grandall99 commented on the word annealed
Just came across an interesting use of the word annealed: I've annealed my analysis, and clarified my recommendations.
Normal usage of the word would be connected to heat treating of various substances (metal for example) to harden them. Actually, it makes sense to me for the word to be used this way.
April 20, 2009