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fluxstone

fluxstone noun: calcium-rich limestone used as a flux in metal smelting.

Noun

fluxstone (countable and uncountable, plural fluxstones)

  1. Calcium-rich limestone used as a flux in metal smelting.
    • By far the predominant use of fluxstone is in smelting pig iron in the blast furnace, where limestone, as lime, reacts with impurities in the ore and fuel to form a molten slag that is removed gravimetrically.1980, Robert S. Boynton, Chemistry and Technology of Lime and Limestone, 2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., →ISBN, page 99

Forms of fluxstone

pluralfluxstones

Questions about fluxstone

What does fluxstone mean?
Fluxstone means calcium-rich limestone used as a flux in metal smelting.
What part of speech is fluxstone?
Fluxstone is a noun.
What is the plural of fluxstone?
The plural of fluxstone is fluxstones.

Words near fluxstone in the dictionary

  1. fluxoniums
  2. fluxons
  3. fluxotaxis
  4. fluxoturbidite
  5. fluxoturbiditic
  6. fluxstone
  7. fluxtube
  8. fluxtubes
  9. fluxuate
  10. fluxuated
  11. fluxuates

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