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QUENCHED STEEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does quenched steel mean? 

QUENCHED STEEL (noun)
  The noun QUENCHED STEEL has 1 sense:

1. steel that has been hardened by immersing it in water or oil to cool itplay

  Familiarity information: QUENCHED STEEL used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


QUENCHED STEEL (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Steel that has been hardened by immersing it in water or oil to cool it

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("quenched steel" is a kind of...):

steel (an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range)

Meronyms (substance of "quenched steel"):

martensite (a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quenched steel"):

oil-hardened steel (steel that is quenched in oil)


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