hardening

• the process of becoming hard or solid by cooling or drying or crystallization
• abnormal hardening or thickening of tissue
• the act of making something harder (firmer or tighter or more compact)
• Making hard or harder
• That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel

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