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reflux

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reflux [′rē‚fləks]
(chemical engineering)
In a chemical process, that part of the product stream that may be returned to the process to assist in giving increased conversion or recovery, as in distillation or liquid-liquid extraction.
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He had disentangled the nodes of their intersections, assigning to each its regulated period of flux and reflux.
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