stackyFACTSDunking aggressively glowing steel directly into cold water makes it frantically warp and shatter, so blacksmiths use oil to slow down the thermal shock. The viscous liquid boils at a different rate, cooling the glowing crystalline structure just slowly enough to form hard martensite without ripping the entire workpiece in half.
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