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• Quench — A quench refers to a rapid cooling. In polymer chemistry and materials science, quenching is used to prevent low temperature processes such as phase transformations from occurring by only providing a narrow window of time in which the reaction is …   Wikipedia

• Gas-filled tube — See also: Gas discharge lamp A gas filled tube, also known as a discharge tube, is an arrangement of electrodes in a gas within an insulating, temperature resistant envelope. Although the envelope is typically glass, power tubes often use… …   Wikipedia

• quench zones — Those parts within the combustion chamber of an engine where the temperature of the air fuel mixture is lower than necessary for optimum combustion, due to contact with the relatively cold metal surface; incomplete combustion in the quench zones… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• quench area — A zone in the combustion chamber where the piston at top dead center is very close to the cylinder head. Because the piston and cylinder head is cooler than the unburned part of the fuel air mixture (i.e., end gas), they pull the heat from the… …   Dictionary of automotive terms

• Dielectric gas — A dielectric gas, or insulating gas, is a dielectric material in gaseous state. Its main purpose is to prevent or rapidly quench electric discharges. Dielectric gases are used as electrical insulators in high voltage applications, e.g.… …   Wikipedia

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• amorphous solid — ▪ physics Introduction       any noncrystalline solid in which the atoms and molecules are not organized in a definite lattice pattern. Such solids include glass, plastic, and gel.       Solids and liquids (liquid) are both forms of condensed… …   Universalium

• Ferritic nitrocarburizing — Not to be confused with Carbonitriding. Ferritic nitrocarburizing is a range of case hardening processes that diffuse nitrogen and carbon into ferrous metals at sub critical temperatures. The processing temperature ranges from 525 °C… …   Wikipedia

• steel — steellike, adj. /steel/, n. 1. any of various modified forms of iron, artificially produced, having a carbon content less than that of pig iron and more than that of wrought iron, and having qualities of hardness, elasticity, and strength varying …   Universalium

• Circuit breaker — For other uses, see Circuit breaker (disambiguation). An air circuit breaker for low voltage (less than 1000 volts) power distribution switchgear …   Wikipedia

• Quenching (disambiguation) — Quenching may mean:* to quench, which is the rapid cooling of a solid to lock it into a metastable crystal structure * Quenching (fluorescence), any process which decreases the fluorescence intensity of a given substance * a loss of… …   Wikipedia