| 淬火 | cuì huǒ | to quench; to temper; to harden by quenching | |
| 淬火硬化 | cuì huǒ yìng huà | to quench hardening (idiom) |
| 1 | Action is thought tempered by illusion. | |
| 2 | How exactly does the oxygen quench the fluorescence? | |
| 3 | Tempering by grinding heat causes hardness change at the surface of the hardened steels . | |
| 4 | Micron scale spheres may be preserved in quenched volcanic matrix. | |
| 5 | Tempering is possible because of the instability of the martensite, the principal constituent of hardened steel. |