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Quenching Experiment Videos
One of the areas in which our graduate students and faculty
conduct research is quenching - a process where hot
metal is cooled rapidly by immersing it in water or other
liquids in order to control certain properties of the metal,
such as hardness or brittleness.
The two video clips below illustrate the quenching process, as hot metal is immersed in canola oil (clip #1) and ordinary water (clip #2).
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