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black flux

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noun

Metallurgy.

  1. a reducing flux consisting of finely divided carbon and potassium carbonate.

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Statesmen deal in proximate principles,—unstable compounds; but war reduces facts to their simple elements in its red-hot crucible, with its black flux of carbon and sulphur and nitre.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various

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