quenching
IPA: kwˈɛntʃɪŋ
noun
- (physics) The extinction of any of several physical properties.
- (metallurgy) The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it.
- (astronomy) A process in which a galaxy loses cold gas, thus strongly suppressing star formation.
- (botany) The dissipation of energy from light in excess of what can be used for photosynthesis.
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Examples of "quenching" in Sentences
- a deep thirst for knowledge which I hope to begin quenching next year at the
- It's not that different in theory from "quenching" metal after it's been tempered / hardened.
- The old Virginia Inn at the cross roads claims to be the actual scene of the "quenching" of Sir Walter Raleigh.
- Well ... as everyone who knows the properties of metals will tell you, heating a metal up (in this case potassium), then as quickly as possible cooling it down (this is called quenching), makes the metal form tiny crystals, and tiny is what we want.
- Severstal engineers said the new line at its Dearborn, Mich., plant, which supplies Ford Motor Co. and other car makers, relies on a secret continuous-annealing formula that involves cooling steel with water—a process known as quenching—and then immediately reheating it.
- The transfer of the initially absorbed energy to other nonabsorbing molecules, called "quenching" in photochemistry, enables a relatively small amount of greenhouse gases such as CO2 to continuously absorb the thermoradiative energy, which otherwise would escape into space, and to convert the radiation back to thermal energy that stays on Earth.
- The beast of prey skulking back to his lair, the stag quenching his thirst ere retiring to the depths of the forest, the wedge of wild fowl flying with trumpet notes to some distant lake, the vulture hastening in heavy flight to the carrion that night has provided, the crane flapping to the shallows, and the jackal shuffling along to his shelter in the nullah, have each and all their portent to the initiated eye.
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