| Base | (english) The steel or concrete pedestal on which the coils are stacked during the batch annealing process. |
| Bath Annealing | (english) Is immersion is a liquid bath (such as molten lead or fused salts) held at an assigned temperature-when a lead bath is used, the process is known as lead annealing. |
| Black Annealing | (english) A process of box annealing or pot annealing ferrous alloy sheet, strip or wire after hot working and pickling. |
| Blue Annealing | (english) Heating hot rolled ferrous sheet in an open furnace to a temperature within the transformation range and then cooling in air, in order to soften the metal. The formation of a bluish oxide on the surface is incidental. |
| Box Annealing | (english) Annealing a metal or alloy in a sealed container under conditions that minimize oxidation. In box annealing a ferrous alloy, the charge is usually heated slowly to a temperature below the transformation range, but sometimes above or within it, and is then cooled slowly; this process is also called close annealing or pot annealing. |
| Box Annealing 2 | (english) A process of annealing a ferrous alloy in a closed metal container, with or without packing materials, in order to minimize the effects of oxidation. The charge is normally heated slowly to a temperature below the transformation range, but occasionally above or within it, and then is slowly cooled. |
| Bright Annealing | (english) A process carried out usually in a controlled furnace atmosphere, so surface does not oxidize, remaining bright. |
| Bright Annealing 2 | (english) The process of annealing in a protective atmosphere so as to prevent discoloration of the bright surface desired. |
| Bright Bessemer Wire | (english) Stiff bright wire of hard temper. Normally wire is drawn down to size without annealing. |
| Brown Sharp Gages | (english) A standard series of sizes refered to by numbers, in which the diameter of wire or thickness of sheet metal is generally produced and which is used in the manufacture of brass, bronze, copper, copper-base alloys and aluminum. These gage numbers have a definite relationship to each other. In this system, the decimal thickness is reduced by 50% every six gage numbers- while temper is expressed by the number of B&S gage numbers as cold reduced in thickness from previous annealing. For each B&S gage number in thickness reduction, where is assigned a hardness value of 1/4 hard. |