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Physics reduce the degree of (luminescence or phosphorescence) in (excited molecules or a material) by adding a suitable substance
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quenching
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quench \Quench\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Quenched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Quenching .] [OE. quenchen, AS. cwencan in [=a]cwencan, to extinguish utterly, causative of cwincan, [=a]cwincan, to decrease, disappear; cf. AS. cw[=i]nan, [=a]cw[=i]nan, to waste or dwindle ...
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Quenching refers to any process which decreases the fluorescence intensity of a given substance. A variety of processes can result in quenching, such as excited state reactions, energy transfer, complex-formation and collisional quenching. As a consequence, ...
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n. the act of extinguishing; causing to stop burning; "the extinction of the lights" [syn: extinction , extinguishing ]
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n. 1 (context physics English) The extinction of any of several physical properties. 2 The rapid cooling of a hot metal object, by placing it in a liquid, in order to harden it. vb. (present participle of quench English)
Usage examples of quenching.
A demon fire that burns toward Ermora Yields to their quenching A melded child of their making is born to rule the dragon To bring harmony in clasped hands.
The cloak had not put out the fire entirely, though, and quenching the flames that sprang up here and there had entailed a great deal of excitement and rushing about, in the course of which Orrie McCallum was misplaced, toddled off, and fell into the groundhog kiln, where he was foundmany frantic minutes laterby Rollo.
South End of Bahr Assad Tabaqah Air Base, Syria Thursday, 9 March 1995 1130 Hours, Local While Newman and Samir were quenching their thirst and avoiding the Syrian Interior Ministry police in Dayr Az Zawr, General Komulakov and most of his combined force of retired KGB Department V thugs and PFLP terrorists were enjoying the relative luxury of a Syrian Air Force hangar at the military installation protecting the hydroelectric dam at the south end of nearby Lake Assad.
Margarita was ready to scratch my eyes out if I could not prove my fidelity, but I satisfied her by quenching on her the fires Armelline and the punch had kindled.
I went to bed with a great thirst for revenge, I fell asleep thinking of it, and I awoke with the resolution of quenching it.
It was a way of quenching their thirst, to pick the small, juicy bilberries.
Such is the glorious copartnership, that shall tear down the distilleries and brewhouses, uproot the vineyards, shatter the cider-presses, ruin the tea and coffee trade, and, finally monopolize the whole business of quenching thirst.
She imagined herself a belated traveller, a poor girl, an outcast, quenching her thirst at the wayside brook, her little packet of cresses doing duty for a bundle of clothes.
One can take the temper from fine metal by heating it and allowing it to cool without quenching.
He could smell the clean hot scent of burning charcoal from the big shed up ahead of them, hot metal, sneeze-making cinders, the heavy frying smell of the oil bath used for quenching and tempering.
There was a loud hissing and a large downward puff of steam and for a moment the Mouser thought his worst dreads had been realized, for an angry squirt of water from the quenching point struck Fafhrd in the neck.
The freighter hit the berm, quenching the white-hot metal as it plowed through a hundred cubic meters of earth.
It was hot, with a smell of scorched metal, glowing stone, and heated wood, oil from the quenching bath and the dusty scent of dry gritty rock beneath her feet.
The smells were of hot oil from the quenching bath, burning charcoal, scorched metal, sweat.
Rather oddly, there was a small furnace in the cell, a quenching bath, two small anvils, several hammers, many other tools for working metals, as well as a small store of precious and workaday metals themselves.