Quenching (disambiguation)
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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 superconductivity resulting in a rapid rise of resistance and temperature.
- the means by which a Geiger-Müller tube is able to distinguish individual particles.
- in a super-regenerative receiver, the process of interrupting the main RF oscillation with a lower frequency oscillation.
- the process of stopping an electrical arc, for example in a fuse or Spark-gap transmitter.
- in an internal combustion engine, the rapid cooling of fuel inside the combustion chamber that prevents it from burning.
Quench may also refer to:
- Quench (album), an album by The Beautiful South.
- ICMP Source Quench, a message that is part of the internet core protocol.
- Lily Quench, a series of children's books.
- a dark quencher, a dye that absorbs light, but does not emit it - used in molecular biology.
- a magazine published by gair rhydd, a student newspaper of Cardiff University.
- a secondary gas in a neon tube filled with a Penning mixture.
- a character in the sketch comedy show All That.
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