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flux
\Flux\ - n.
1. The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as
of a flowing stream; constant succession; change.
2. The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being
called the reflux.
3. The state of being liquid through heat; fusion.
4. (Chemistry & Metallurgy) Any substance or mixture used to
promote the fusion of metals or minerals, as alkalies, borax, lime,
fluorite.
Note: White flux is the residuum of the combustion of a mixture
of equal parts of niter and tartar. It consists chiefly of the carbonate
of potassium, and is white. -- Black flux is the ressiduum
of the combustion of one part of niter and two of tartar, and consists
essentially of a mixture of potassium carbonate and charcoal.
5. (Medicine) (a) A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part;
especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux
or dysentery. (b) The matter thus discharged.
6. (Physics) The quantity of a fluid that crosses a unit area of
a given surface in a unit of time.
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