malleablize

American

[mal-ee-uh-blahyz] / ˈmæl i əˌblaɪz /

especially British, malleablise

verb (used with object)

malleablized, malleablizing

to make (white cast iron) malleable by annealing it so that the carbon is transformed to graphite or removed completely.

First recorded in 1880–85; malleable + -ize

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