Assertion: annealing | /r/CapableOf | reduce brittleness
Facets:
value: around the weld
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: Annealing improves ductility and reduces brittleness.
text: Tempering is sometimes used in place of stress relieving (even heating and cooling of the entire object to just below the A 1 temperature) to both reduce the internal stresses and to decrease the brittleness around the weld.