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Annealer

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An`neal´er
n.1.One who, or that which, anneals.


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Two furnaces melt glass, and there are five crucibles in which it is kept molten, and an equal number of annealers, in which the finished work is cooled down gently to prevent cracking.
The good Dr Chinn is particularly skilled at evoking this world, plundering Victorian census returns to find a forgotten metal annealer in Deritend or an overlooked family in the Gun Quarter.
Though it's small, there's room for the tools of his trade: furnace, glory hole, annealer and his bench, where with the help of his wife, Maria, he heats, shapes and cools his glass sculptures with the split second timing of nearly 20 years of experience.
 
 
 
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