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- 1. serving to relieve thirst; refreshing.
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Jun 25, 2021 · Quenching is the process of rapidly cooling a material (usually a metal) to obtain desirable mechanical properties like increased strength and hardness. Learn how quenching works, what media are used, and what happens during the quenching of steel and other materials.
In materials science, quenching is the rapid cooling of a workpiece in water, gas, oil, polymer, air, or other fluids to obtain certain material properties. A type of heat treating, quenching prevents undesired low-temperature processes, such as phase transformations, from occurring.
Quench means to put out, extinguish, cool, or satisfy something. It can also mean to terminate or relieve something. See synonyms, examples, and word history of quench.
Mar 24, 2023 · Quenching is a rapid cooling process that alters specific properties of materials by manipulating the cooling rate. Learn about the quenching stages, media, benefits and applications of quenching for metals such as steel.
Quenching is the present participle of quench, which means to drink liquid to stop being thirsty, to use water to put out a fire, or to satisfy a need or wish. Learn more about the verb quench and its usage with examples from the Cambridge English Corpus.
quenching, rapid cooling, as by immersion in oil or water, of a metal object from the high temperature at which it has been shaped. This usually is undertaken to maintain mechanical properties associated with a crystalline structure or phase distribution that would be lost upon slow cooling.
Jul 21, 2020 · Quenching is the soaking of a metal at a high temperature, above the recrystallization phase, followed by a rapid cooling process to obtain certain desirable material properties.
