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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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Other subjects studied include analysis of hammering deformation processes by the dynamic explicit finite element method, hot stamping processing experiments with quenchable boron steel, macrokinetics hierarchies of states at dynamic superplasticity, simulation of internal stress in injection molded parts, and numerical computation of a linear friction welding process.
Those blends that are quenchable into glassy state are quite suited for processes that utilize rubbery state temperature zone between [T.
 
 
 
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