Precipitation hardening, or age hardening, is a heat treatment process that increases the नम्य होने की क्षमता of malleable materials. It involves heating an मिश्र धातु to dissolve solute elements (solutionizing), rapidly cooling (quenching) to trap them in a supersaturated solid solution, and then aging at a lower temperature to allow fine particles of a second phase (precipitates) to form, which obstruct dislocation movement.

















