Recrystallization and annealing

Layer 2 — Chemistryin the Metallurgy and Alloys subtree

Cold-worked metal stores ~10 percent of plastic-work as defects; on annealing, recovery (point-defect annihilation) then recrystallization (new strain-free grains) then grain-growth (grain-boundary curvature reduction).

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