heat treatment

English

Noun

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.

Related terms

Translations

process

Chinese:
Mandarin: 熱處理／热处理 (zh) (rèchǔlǐ)

References

“heat treatment, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Further reading

heat treatment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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