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Describe the common heat treatment for gears and gear teeth.

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The common heat treatment for the gears and the gear teeth are induction heating. As the name suggests alternating currents are used fro the heating process in induction heating, the gear are mainly made up of steel brass and iron which are good conductors of electricity so induction heating is used for gear and gear teeth.

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