Distinguish between annealing and normalizing process.
Annealing
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Normalizing
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Less hardness, toughness
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Slightly more hardness, toughness.
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For plain carbon steel the microstructure shows pearlite
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Microstructure shows more pearlite.
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Pearlite is coarse and usually gets resolved by the optical microscope.
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Pearlite is fine and appears unresolved with optical microscope
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Grain size distribution is more uniform
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Grain size distribution is slightly less uniform.
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Internal stresses are least.
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Internal stresses are slightly more
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