To extinguish; to overwhelm; to make an end of; -- said of flame and fire, of things burning, and figuratively of sensations and emotions; as, to quench flame; to quench a candle; to quench thirst, love, hate, etc.
To cool suddenly, as heated steel, in tempering.
To become extinguished; to go out; to become calm or cool.
The process of rapidly cooling a hot piece of steel, by immersing it in a quenching medium - usually water or oil. This process is used in hardening of steel.
To quickly place a heated object in cold water ... more on quench here
Stopping a reaction quickly, first used to refer to harden steel by quickly putting red-hot steel into cold water.
(1) To slake one's thirst. (2) To cool (hot metal) by thrusting into water or other liquid.
rapid cooling of a material from a high temperature quickly, so that the material cannot assume its normal low temperature state.
an event which can only occur in superconducting magnets, it is caused by a loss of superconductivity; a rapid increase in the resistivity of the magnet, which generates heat that results in the rapid evaporation of the magnet coolant (liquid helium). This evaporated coolant is a hazard that requires emergency venting systems to protect patients and operators. A quench can cause total magnet failure.
satisfy (thirst); "The cold water quenched his thirst"
put out, as of fires, flames, or lights; "Too big to be extinguished at once, the forest fires at best could be contained"; "quench the flames"; "snuff out the candles"
cool by plunging into cold water; "quench metal"
To rapidly cool by means of liquid immersion--usually water or forced air cooling.
The rapid cooling of the EDM'd surface by the dielectric fluid. Partially responsible for the metallurgical changes forming the recast layer and the heat-affected zone.
Accelerated cooling, frequently in liquid (oil, water).
to cool hot steel in a liquid
The rapid cooling of combustion exhaust with showers of water.
Unexpected loss of superconductivity in a superconducting magnet that causes heating and very rapid vaporization of the cryogens such as liquid helium. This can cause damage to the magnet and can force the atmosphere out of the scanner room potentially causing anoxic conditions.
To suddenly cool a heated metal or alloy by dousing it with water or oil.
To quickly place a heated object in cold water. This is usually done to either stop the cooking process or to separate the skin of an object from the meat. This process is sometimes referred to as "shocking."
To plunge heated steal into a medium such as oil to cool it. The more rapid the quenching the harder the steel becomes.
A cooling zone in which the temperature of melt-spun filaments is lowered very rapidly and/or at a controlled rate soon after extrusion. The two main types are generally referred to as waterquench and air-quench.
To put out, to satisfy as to quench one's thirst
To extinguish a fire by cooling.
A quench refers to a rapid cooling. In polymer chemistry and materials science, quenching is used to prevent low-temperature processes such as phase transformations from occurring by only providing a narrow window of time in which the reaction is both thermodynamically favorable and kinetically accessible. For instance, it can reduce crystallinity and thereby increase toughness of both alloys and plastics (produced through polymerization).
