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Heat treatment is the term that describes in a general manner an operation or series of operations which involve the heating and cooling of a metal or alloy in the solid state, carried out for the purpose of obtaining certain desired properties.
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Pascoe, K.J. (1978). Heat Treatment of Steel. In: An Introduction to the Properties of Engineering Materials. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7068-0_16
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