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Aging  

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  • Aging is a time repentant process causing structural changes in the material and its chemical composition leading to changes in the properties. In metals aging is a material hardening method, where the oversaturated or solutionized metallic solid solution hardens at room (natural aging) or is heat treated at elevated temperatures (artificial aging) for hours to allow precipitation formation.

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