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

• rapid evaporative cooling of a gas by injection of a liquid

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"