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A Dictionary of Earth Sciences | 1999 | | Â© A Dictionary of Earth Sciences 1999, originally published by Oxford University Press 1999. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

quenching The sudden chilling of magma, which may provide a ‘snapshot’ of the mineral phases that were in equilibrium under a particular set of temperature and pressure conditions. Quenching is much used in experimental petrology to investigate the course of mineral reactions.

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