WATER QUENCHING. A quench in which water is the quenching medium. The major disadvantage of water quenching is its poor efficiency at the beginning or hot stage of the quenching process.
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SEVERITY OF QUENCH. Ability of quenching medium to extract heat from a hot steel workpiece; expressed in terms of the H value.
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