anneal
verb (used with object)
to heat (glass, earthenware, metals, etc.) to remove or prevent internal stress.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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We regulate the oven according to what we are annealing in it.
From The Story of Glass by C.P. Gray