What is aushardening?

[Pradeepkumar]

What is aushardening?

[CaptainPanic]

I've never seen that word before, but... Perhaps:

 

A german loan word that's become half-English for hardening (like tempering steel)?

To be honest, it looks more like a massive spelling mistake than anything else, when I look at Google's 4 hits.

 

It looks a little like "uitharden" which is a Dutch word for tempering / hardening. This is how I got the idea.

[frosch45]

aus in german means "out of" or "from"

 

Either that or aus is referring to australia

[chitrangda]

may be something to do with cricket

[Skye]

Good guess CaptainPanic.

 

Austempering is heat treatment for steel. I'm guessing it's just another word for that. The aus- comes from austenite, a phase of steel.