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Hardening

Increasing the hardness of steel by heat treatment. The steel is heated to a suitable austenitizing temperature, holding at that temperature for a sufficient time to affect the desired solution of carbon and other alloying elements, then quenching in a suitable medium, such as water, oil, air, polymer or molten salts to form martensite.

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