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Yes, anneal is playable

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"Anneal" Definition

verb-intransitive

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

verb-transitive

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

verb

To heat and then cool (as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle.
To cool slowly usually in a furnace.
To heat and then cool (double-stranded nucleic acid) in order to separate strands and induce combination at lower temperature with complementary strands.
To be capable of combining with complementary nucleic acid by a process of heating and cooling.

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