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quench
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quench,
v to cool a hot object rapidly by plunging it into water or oil.
quench
to put out, extinguish, or suppress; to cool (as hot metal) by immersing in water. In liquid scintillation counting, any process taking place within the sample container which results in a decrease in number or intensity of the light flashes produced, thus lowering the amount of energy recorded.
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Thus, a very low quenching temperature would increase the temperature differential between the foam sample and the quench fluid restricting the foam cell size (16).
Foaming behavior of high-melt strength polypropylene/clay ... by Bhattacharya, Subhendu; Gupta, Rahul K.; Jollands, Margaret; Bhattacharya, Sati N. / Polymer Engineering and Science
Another objection to a quenching method is that the predominance of the quenching temperature throughout the experiment coupled with the extremely large initial temperature difference could give rise to computational difficulties.
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low quenching temperatures (< 30[degrees]C) induces [beta] phase from the PVDF melt, while the [alpha] phase is produced at a higher quenching temperature (> 30[degrees]C).
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