- a flowing or flow.
- the flowing in of the tide.
- continuous change, passage, or movement: His political views are in a state of flux.
- Physics.
- the rate of flow of fluid, particles, or energy.
- a quantity expressing the strength of a field of force in a given area.
- Chemistry, Metallurgy.
- a substance used to refine metals by combining with impurities to form a molten mixture that can be readily removed.
- a substance used to remove oxides from and prevent further oxidation of fused metal, as in soldering or hot-dip coating.
- (in the refining of scrap or other metal) a salt or mixture of salts that combines with nonmetallic impurities, causing them to float or coagulate.
- fusion.
- to melt; make fluid.
- to fuse by the use of flux.
- to purge.
- to flow.
- a flow or discharge
- continuous change; instability
- a substance, such as borax or salt, that gives a low melting-point mixture with a metal oxide. It is used for cleaning metal surfaces during soldering, etc, and for protecting the surfaces of liquid metals
- a chemical used to increase the fluidity of refining slags in order to promote the rate of chemical reaction
- a similar substance used in the making of glass
- physics
- the rate of flow of particles, energy, or a fluid, through a specified area, such as that of neutrons (neutron flux) or of light energy (luminous flux)
- the strength of a field in a given area expressed as the product of the area and the component of the field strength at right angles to the area
- an excessive discharge of fluid from the body, such as watery faeces in diarrhoea
- the act or process of melting; fusion
- (in the philosophy of Heraclitus) the state of constant change in which all things exist
- to make or become fluid
- to apply flux to (a metal, soldered joint, etc)
- (tr) an obsolete word for purge
