Quenching Sentence Examples

This quenching of the light of the world is symbolized at the service of Tenebrae in Holy Week by the placing on a stand before the altar of thirteen lighted tapers arranged pyramidally, the rest of the church being in darkness.

However this may be, very soon after man began to practise hot-forging he would inevitably learn that sudden cooling, by quenching in water, made a large proportion of his metal, his steel, extremely hard and brittle, because he would certainly try by this very quenching to avoid the inconvenience of having the hot metal about.

Austenite may contain carbon in any proportion up to about 2.2 It is non-magnetic, and, when preserved in the cold either by quenching or by the presence of manganese, nickel, &c., it has a very remarkable combination of great malleability with very marked hardness, though it is less hard than common carbon steel is when hardened, and probably less hard than martensite.

Their attacks on infant baptism seemed to him not altogether irrational, and in regard to their claim to personal inspiration he said "Luther alone can decide; on the one hand let us beware of quenching the Spirit of God, and on the other of being led astray by the spirit of Satan."

After this carburizing these objects are usually hardened by quenching in cold water (see § 28).

To improve malleability of the pipe for tight bends it is worth heating and quenching in cold water.

Putting too many dye molecules close together, however, can lead to the quenching of the fluorescence.

This may be caused due to quenching from a temperature too high for the type of steel involved.

Keep in mind that long wearing lipsticks tend to be drying, so treat lips with a quenching coat of lip balm in between touch ups.

A daily cleanser suited for your facial needs is a must, followed by a quenching moisturizer.

The peculiarity of these steels is that no quenching or tempering is required.

The red pigment in tomatoes, lycopene, works by quenching the highly damaging free radical singlet oxygen.

This was done by heating the barrels up and then quenching them in huge vats of whale oil.