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    Solder (redirect from Acid Flux)
    types of flux are acid flux (sometimes called "active flux"), containing strong acids, used for metal mending and plumbing, and rosin flux (sometimes...
    38 KB (4,923 words) - 17:09, 27 April 2024
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    a colored glass paste, or flux, that fills up the negative space in the design with whatever color chosen. Byzantine enamels usually depict a person of...
    14 KB (1,937 words) - 12:59, 17 October 2021
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    household uses, including as a pesticide, as a metal soldering flux, as a component of glass, enamel, and pottery glazes, for tanning of skins and hides, for...
    45 KB (4,316 words) - 01:47, 2 May 2024
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    varying current in any coil of the transformer produces a varying magnetic flux in the transformer's core, which induces a varying electromotive force (EMF)...
    83 KB (9,192 words) - 13:15, 5 June 2024
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    important industrial applications, chiefly in ceramics as a flux for glazes and enamels and in the production of glasses. Boron trioxide has three known...
    15 KB (1,339 words) - 01:01, 5 March 2024
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    Basse-taille (category Vitreous enamel)
    Basse-taille (bahss-tah-ee) is an enamelling technique in which the artist creates a low-relief pattern in metal, usually silver or gold, by engraving...
    9 KB (1,151 words) - 05:18, 28 May 2024
  • physics, attenuation (in some contexts, extinction) is the gradual loss of flux intensity through a medium. For instance, dark glasses attenuate sunlight...
    21 KB (2,645 words) - 17:24, 21 March 2024
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    Plique-à-jour (category Vitreous enamel)
    Plique-à-jour (French for "letting in daylight") is a vitreous enamelling technique where the enamel is applied in cells, similar to cloisonné, but with no backing...
    12 KB (1,509 words) - 04:26, 23 December 2023
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    model's upper arm meets her robe, art critic Kelly Grovier argues that "flux and fragmentation" are what gives the painting its power, concluding that...
    9 KB (900 words) - 02:52, 23 December 2023
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    use of lead oxide in enamels and includes recipes for calcining lead to form the oxide. Lead glass was ideally suited for enamelling vessels and windows...
    33 KB (3,897 words) - 19:31, 15 May 2024
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    currently the least popular method. The flux growth process was the first process able to synthesize emerald. Flux growth begins with a crucible which can...
    60 KB (6,826 words) - 21:52, 29 May 2024
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    important groups of traditional glazes, each named after its main ceramic fluxing agent, are: Ash glaze, traditionally important in East Asia, simply made...
    24 KB (2,863 words) - 08:04, 18 May 2024
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    and fired at a temperature of 800 degrees C. Lead oxide was the principal flux in the glaze. Polychrome effects (i.e. the colours) were obtained by using...
    6 KB (721 words) - 20:50, 27 August 2023
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    use, but differences may be detected in the chemical composition of the flux used. Fencai (粉彩) meaning 'powdery colours' or 'pale colours' in reference...
    19 KB (2,074 words) - 19:49, 13 May 2024
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    uses. Industrially, fluorite is used as a flux for smelting, and in the production of certain glasses and enamels. The purest grades of fluorite are a source...
    34 KB (3,748 words) - 10:41, 22 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electromagnetic coil
    the stronger the field produced. Conversely, a changing external magnetic flux induces a voltage in a conductor such as a wire, due to Faraday's law of...
    20 KB (2,474 words) - 15:04, 1 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bifilar coil
    coil is used as a means of removing the energy stored in the stray magnetic flux which fails to link the primary coil to the secondary coil of the transformer...
    7 KB (818 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Famille jaune, noire, rose, verte
    use, but differences may be detected in the chemical composition of the flux used. Ruancai ('soft colours') was also a term used in the Yongzheng era...
    17 KB (1,914 words) - 08:17, 12 May 2024
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    . silica in the form of sand or powdered quartz fused with the aid of a flux such as lime and potash… and commonly including an oxide of lead... " Arnoux...
    21 KB (2,359 words) - 08:06, 5 May 2024
  • Enamel (W) Coloured, glass-like decoration applied to ceramic wares. Also called on-glaze decoration. Often made by mixing metal oxides with a flux....
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