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quenching
(kwench´ing)
extinguishing, suppressing, or diminishing a physical property, as the rapid chilling of a hot metal by plunging it into cold
liquid.
in biochemistry, decrease of fluorescence from an excited molecule by interference that reduces the fluorescence intensity.
the termination of secondary and subsequent ionizations in a detector to give it time to become sensitive again.

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