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Anneal meaning
To subject to great heat and then (often slow) cooling, and sometimes reheating and further cooling, for the purpose of rendering less brittle; to temper; to toughen. | To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress. | To burn colors onto a glass or other surface.
Example sentences (5)
In some cases, complete amorphization of a target is preferable to a highly defective crystal: An amorphized film can be regrown at a lower temperature than required to anneal a highly damaged crystal.
Primers should also not anneal strongly to themselves, as internal hairpins and loops could hinder the annealing with the template DNA.
Primers should not easily anneal with other primers in the mixture (either other copies of same or the reverse direction primer); this phenomenon can lead to the production of 'primer dimer' products contaminating the mixture.
Since blunt-ended DNA fragments have no cohesive ends to anneal, the melting temperature is not a factor to consider within the normal temperature range of the ligation reaction.
The temperature required to anneal a particular steel depends on the type of annealing to be achieved and the constituents of the alloy.