Glossary of Marine Terms

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quenching
in the heat treating of steel, the step of cooling metals rapidly in order to obtain martensite by immersing or quickly cooling the steel in a quenching medium. the quenching media may be water, brine, oil, special solutions, salts or metals; and the intensity of the quench is determined by the temperature, volume and velocity of the media. in the case of air hardening tool steels the quenching medium is air at room temperatures.

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