tempering

noun

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The act by which something is tempered.
“Caron has, in fact, discovered this very curious circumstance, that a bar of steel becomes shorter under successive temperings, while it increases in size, laterally, in such a manner, that there actually is an increase of volume.”
A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; temper.
“Clay and tempering were packed around the pole together with plenty of water[.]”