An iron cleaning agent Limestone and lime react with impurities within the metallic pool to form a slag that floats to the top of the relatively heavier (and now more pure) liquid iron
the rate at which a substance flows The Watt is a unit of energy flux, because it indicates the amount of energy (in joules) that flows every second
The rate at which a Reverse Osmosis Membrane allows water to pass through it Fouling The deposition of organic matter on the membrane surface, which causes inefficiencies Fragmentation The subdivision of a solid in fragments The fragments will then adhere to the nearest surface
A substance that lowers the melting temperature of another substance For example, a flux is added to the batch in order to facilitate the fusing of the silica Fluxes are also added to enamels in order to lower their fusion point to below that of the glass body to which they are to be applied Potash and soda are fluxes
a rate of exchange of material into or out from a reservoir The Earth is a closed ecosystem, and yet many substances can be transformed or moved from reservoir to reservoir Therefore, we need to know the rates at which substances move (i e their fluxes) If we know the locations and sizes of the most important reservoirs, as well as the fluxes between and among the relevant reservoirs, we can often attain a quantitative understanding of important biogeochemical cycles
excessive discharge of liquid from a cavity or organ (as in watery diarrhea) a substance added to molten metals to bond with impurities that can then be readily removed the rate of flow of energy or particles across a given surface
In the field of atmospheric turbulence and boundary layers, often used as a contraction for flux density; namely, the flow of a quantity per unit area per unit time These fluxes can be defined in two forms: dynamic and kinematic The dynamic flux of a quantity is the flow of that quantity per unit area per unit time, where often the word dynamic is assumed if it is not explicitly stated The advantage of a kinematic flux is that it has units that are more easily measured by a conventional meteorological instrument (AMS, 2000)