self-ˈfluxing, ppl. a.
[self- 4.]
Of iron ore: capable of being smelted without the addition of a flux, usu. because it contains a high proportion of lime. Also as vbl. n.
| 1884 W. H. Greenwood Steel & Iron vi. 104 The ore is accompanied by a sufficient quantity of calcareous matters to yield the necessary flux without any further addition of fluxing materials to the charge; such ores are..known as ‘self-going’ or ‘self-fluxing’. 1923 Harbord & Hall Metall. of Steel (ed. 7) II. xxvi. 504 A few ores have an excess of lime, and if unable to secure self-fluxing ores the blast furnace manager endeavours to mix siliceous and calcareous ores when obtainable to form a self-fluxing mixture. 1973 Times 12 Feb. (Anchor Project Suppl.) p. ii/5 To have constructed an integrated plant..near the ore terminal would have entailed..the transport of a considerable amount of local ore in the reverse direction (or the loss of ‘selffluxing’ economies). |