fluting
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The company has developed a long list of by-products including quick lime, pulverized limestone for fertilizer, fluxing stone for blast furnaces, a powder for tennis courts, stone for dams, breakwaters and railroad embankments.
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Life is vastly different from mere chemic matter fluxing in high modes of notion.
From The Jacket (Star-Rover) by London, Jack
Various prepared fluxing powders are on the market for this work, practically all of them producing satisfactory results.
From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Manly, Harold P. (Harold Phillips)
In the United States limestone is used principally as crushed stone for road material, railroad ballast, concrete, and cement, as fluxing stone for metallurgical purposes, and in the manufacture of lime.
From The Economic Aspect of Geology by Leith, C. K. (Charles Kenneth)
Fluxes.—In order to assist in removing the scale and other impurities and to make the welding surfaces as clean as possible while being joined, various fluxing materials are used as in other methods of welding.
From Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon by Manly, Harold P. (Harold Phillips)