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Solution Heat Treatment

Heating an alloy to a suitable temperature, holding at that temperature long enough to allow one or more constituents to enter solid solution, and then cooling rapidly enough to hold the constituents in solution. The alloy is left in a supersaturated, unstable state, and may subsequently exhibit quench aging.

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