anneal

1. To heat and then cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle.

2. To cool slowly usually in a furnace.

3. To heat and then cool (double-stranded nucleic acid) in order to separate strands and induce combination at lower temperature with complementary strands.

4. To be capable of combining with complementary nucleic acid by a process of heating and cooling.

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1. To become strengthened or hardened: "the time she needed for opinion to anneal around her policy” ( Alexander M. Haig, Jr.).

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1. To strengthen or harden.

2. To subject (glass or metal) to a process of heating and slow cooling in order to toughen and reduce brittleness.

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anneal	6	Scrabble

2 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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3 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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4 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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5 Letters	Scrabble® Points
annal	5
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6 Letters	Scrabble® Points
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