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Annealing and normalizing is often used to achieve dispersion strengthening. Annealing is a heat treatment used to produce a soft, coarse pearlite in steel by austenitizing, then furnace cooling. Normalizing is a simple heat treatment obtained by austenitizing and air cooling to produce a fine pearlitic structure.