tempering
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]tempering
- present participle and gerund of temper
Noun
[edit]tempering (plural temperings)
- The act by which something is tempered.
- 1872, Louis Emmanuel Gruner, The Manufacture of Steel, page 29:
- Caron has, in fact, discovered this very curious circumstance, that a bar of steel becomes shorter under successive temperings, while it increases in size, laterally, in such a manner, that there actually is an increase of volume.
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[edit]Further reading
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Tempering (metallurgy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - Tempering (spices) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
