"I read it somewhere, sometime, but I can't find the source, but I'll repeat it anyway."
The earlier versions of: "It must be true, I read it on the internet."
Why would you bother to look it up ? Nah, just blurt it out.
Took 15 seconds to find this.
"Annealing, in metallurgy and materials science, is a heat treatment that alters the physical and sometimes chemical properties of a material to increase its ductility and reduce its hardness, making it more workable. It involves heating a material above its recrystallization temperature, maintaining a suitable temperature for a suitable amount of time, and then cooling."
When someone can splain' how low velocity collisions, with stainless steel pins, in cool water can undo a heat treating process, I want to learn.