The lactic acid diffuses out of the muscles and is taken to the liver by the blood. The liver can change lactic acid back into glucose: however, this conversion also requires the use of ATP. During strenuous exercise, primarily the muscles and not the liver use the oxygen, so the lactic acid accumulates.
/quenchÂ·ing/ (kwenchÂ´ing) 1. suppressing or diminishing a physical property, as of heat in a metal by immersion in cold liquid. 2. decrease of fluorescence from an excited molecule by other molecules that absorb some emission energy that would otherwise occur as light.
The martensite of quenched tool steel is exceedingly brittle and highly stressed. Consequently cracking and distortion of the object are liable to occur after quenching. Retained austenite is unstable and as it changes dimensions may alter, e.g. dies may alter 0,012 mm.