What is the major difference between quenching and annealing?

Sharad Jaiswal
Sharad Jaiswal

Posted On: Dec 28, 2020

 

Annealing is a heat treatment that alters the microstructure of a material causing changes in properties such as strength, hardness, and ductility whereas Quenching is the cooling process of the material from the higher room temperature generally, faster cooling like dipping in water, brine solution, oil, etc

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