Meanings
nounfluxstone (countable and uncountable, plural fluxstones)
plural fluxstones
- countableuncountableCalcium-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
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