[Recrystallization process in the 20 carat dental gold alloy (author's transl)]

An annealing process of the 20 carat dental gold alloy was studied by hardness testing, electrical resistivity measurement and optical microscopic observation. The material was cold rolled to 67.4% and 90.7% in reduction and subsequently annealed in the temperature range from 300 degrees to 500 degrees C. Microscopic observation, electrical resistivity and hardness testing revealed that the annealing process were three distinguishable stages, recovery, recrystallization and grain boundary migration. Activation energies, the order of the reaction involved, and frequency factors for various annealing processes were established.