quenched steel
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Noun | 1. | quenched steel - steel that has been hardened by immersing it in water or oil to cool it steel - an alloy of iron with small amounts of carbon; widely used in construction; mechanical properties can be varied over a wide range martensite - a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel oil-hardened steel - steel that is quenched in oil |
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