The strength of steel greatly depends on how it is 'quenched'. This means that the:

hot steel is cooled

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steel is forged

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steel is heated

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steel is bent

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Solution

The correct option is B hot steel is cooled
Solution:- (A) hot steel is cooled
Quenching is a type of heat treatment in which red-hot steel suddenly cooled for making steel hard.

Suggest Corrections

(p) Nitriding	(I) Process of heating steel to redness and then cooling it very slowly
(Q)Annealing	(II) Process of heating steel in presence of $N H_{3}$ and producing hard coating of Iron Oxide on the surface of steel
(R) Tempering	(II) Process of heating steel to redness and then cooling it suddenly by plunging it into water or oil.
(S) Quenching	(IV) Process of heating quenched steel to a temperature well below redness and then cooling it slowly