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Chemistry · Glossary

What is Quenching?

Definition 41.1 School Chemistry — Grades 1 to 12 · Chapter 41 — Reaction Rates

Quenching a sample is stopping, or very greatly slowing, the reaction in it at the moment it is taken, usually by cooling it suddenly and diluting it, so that its composition can be measured at leisure.

Following a reaction by sampling: take a sample, quench it, then measure it at leisure.
Following a reaction by sampling: take a sample, quench it, then measure it at leisure.
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