dissolve vs flux

dissolve

verb
  • To liquify, melt into a fluid. 

  • To break the continuity of; to disconnect; to loosen; to undo; to separate. 

  • To terminate a union of multiple members actively, as by disbanding. 

  • To be disintegrated by such immersion. 

  • To disperse, drive apart a group of persons. 

  • To resolve itself as by dissolution. 

  • To disintegrate chemically into a solution by immersion into a liquid or gas. 

  • To destroy, make disappear. 

  • To be melted, changed into a fluid. 

  • To shift from one shot to another by having the former fade out as the latter fades in. 

  • To relax by pleasure; to make powerless. 

  • To annul; to rescind; to discharge or release. 

noun
  • a form of film punctuation in which there is a gradual transition from one scene to the next 

flux

verb
  • To flow as a liquid. 

  • To use flux on. 

  • To melt. 

noun
  • The rate of transfer of energy (or another physical quantity), especially an electric or magnetic field, through a given surface. 

  • A state of ongoing change. 

  • The state of being liquid through heat; fusion. 

  • A chemical agent for cleaning metal prior to soldering or welding. 

  • The act of flowing; a continuous moving on or passing by, as of a flowing stream. 

adj
  • Flowing; unstable; inconstant; variable. 

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