Glossary · term
Quenching
Workshop
- Aliases
- quench, quenched, martensite, tempering, temper
- Domain
- Workshop
Definition
Cooling hot steel fast — in oil or water — to trap carbon in a hard, brittle structure called martensite. Tempering afterwards trades some hardness back for toughness.
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