SOLUTION HEAT TREATMENT. Heating an alloy to a suitable temperature, holding at that temperature long enough to cause one or more constituents to enter into a solid solution, and then cooling rapidly enough to hold these constituents in solution.
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VACUUM ANNEALING. Annealing carried out at sub-atmospheric pressure.
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SPRING TEMPER. A temper of nonferrous alloys and some ferrous alloys characterized by tensile strength and hardness about two-thirds of the way from […]
WATER QUENCHING. A quench in which water is the quenching medium. The major disadvantage of water quenching is its poor efficiency at the […]