1926 A. Sauveur (ed. 3) xv. 220 Water quenching is to be preferred to oil quenching if it can be performed without producing quenching cracks.
1980 (Royal Soc.) A. 295 215 A range of structures typical of those occurring in different high temperature components of steam power plant were obtained by oil-quenching, air-cooling and furnace-cooling.