anneal

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1. anneal - Noun

2. anneal - Verb

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To subject to great heat, and then cool slowly, as glass, cast iron, steel, or other metal, for the purpose of rendering it less brittle; to temper; to toughen.

To heat, as glass, tiles, or earthenware, in order to fix the colors laid on them.

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Love's a different sort of thing, hot enough to make you flow into something, interflow, cool and anneal and be a weld stronger than what you started with. Theodore Sturgeon

temper glass Source: Internet

Primers should not easily anneal with other primers in the mixture (either other copies of same or the reverse direction primer); this phenomenon can lead to the production of 'primer dimer' products contaminating the mixture. Source: Internet

Primers should also not anneal strongly to themselves, as internal hairpins and loops could hinder the annealing with the template DNA. Source: Internet

Since blunt-ended DNA fragments have no cohesive ends to anneal, the melting temperature is not a factor to consider within the normal temperature range of the ligation reaction. Source: Internet

In some cases, complete amorphization of a target is preferable to a highly defective crystal: An amorphized film can be regrown at a lower temperature than required to anneal a highly damaged crystal. Source: Internet

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