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What is quenching used for in heat treatment?

Hardening alloy steels by rapid cooling.

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  1. Polishing the surface
  2. Hardening alloy steels by rapid cooling ✔
  3. Softening metal slowly

Why: Quenching rapidly cools metal to harden alloy steels or trap dissolved atoms in solution.

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Quenching is a metal's cold plunge.
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Answer: Hardening alloy steels by rapid cooling. Quenching rapidly cools metal to harden alloy steels or trap dissolved atoms in solution.

  1. Metalworking en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalworking
    quenching can be used to harden alloy steels
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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