English Explanatory Dictionary

selfquenching

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quenching of an excited atom (etc) by interaction with another of the same type of atom in the ground state

Word forms

selfquenching self-quenching

Etymology

From self- + quenching.

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