WORD for makers.

FLUX.

1. a flow

2. continuous change

3. a substance for protecting the surfaces of liquid metals

4. a chemical used to increase the fluidity of refining slags

5. the act or process of melting; fusion

6. the state of constant change in which all things exist

origin.

late 14c., from O.Fr. flux, from L.fluxus, pp. of fluere "to flow".

Originally "excessive flow" (of blood or excrement); an early name for

"dysentery;" sense of "continuous succession of changes" is first recoreded 1620s.