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QUENCHED STEEL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Steel that has been hardened by immersing it in water or oil to cool it
Classified under:
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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