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by peter_d_sherman 2363 days ago
Great information!

Also, (and I may be totally wrong about this!), the concept of Annealing from metallurgy -- seems related to that of Quartz Inversion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annealing_(metallurgy)

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Well, both annealing and dunting ("quartz inversion") have to do with the crystalline structure of materials, but that's where the similarity ends. There are many important crystalline phase transitions in metallurgy that are more similar to dunting; the most important of many examples is probably the ferrite-to-austenite transition in steels at 700–1400°. But annealing is not such a crystalline phase transition.