To cool glass slowly, to minimize internal stress.
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 make a double-stranded nucleic acid by pairing a single strand with a complementary strand.
An act of annealing.
To convert (radioactive waste) into a glasslike substance for long-term storage.
Synonym of vitrify: to convert a silica-bearing material to a glasslike substance by applying heat.
To the convert sand or soil of (a particular geographic area) to a glasslike state using the heat from a thermonuclear detonation.