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Types of Annealing
Types of Annealing
final annealing.
The last anneal given a nonferrous alloy before shipment.
flame annealing.
Annealing in which the heat is applied directly by a flame.
intermediate annealing.
Annealing wrought metal at one or more stages during manufacture and before final thermal
treatment.
isothermal annealing.
Austenitizing a ferrous alloy, then cooling to and holding at a temperature at which austenite
transforms to a relatively soft ferrite-carbide aggregate. See also austenitizing.
recrystallization annealing.
Annealing cold-worked metal to produce a new grain structure without a phase change.
spheroidal graphite.
Graphite of spheroidal shape with a polycrystalline radial structure. This structure can be
obtained, for example, by adding cerium or magnesium to the melt.
spheroidite.
An aggregate of iron or alloy carbides of essentially spherical shape dispersed throughout a
matrix of ferrite.
spheroidized structure.
A microstructure consisting of a matrix containing spheroidal particles of another constituent.
spheroidizing.
Heating and cooling to produce a spheroidal or globular form of carbide in steel.
spinodal structure.
A fine, homogeneous mixture of two phases that form by the growth of composition waves in
a solid solution during suitable heat treatment. The phases of a spinodal structure differ in
composition from each other and from the parent phase but have the same crystal structure as
the parent phase.