Controlled heating, holding and cooling to change a material's microstructure and properties. Precipitation hardening and steel tempering are examples.
Heating a solid to cause decomposition or other chemical transformation, commonly producing an oxide-bearing powder. In waste-form manufacture it prepares the feed for later consolidation.

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