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• Reflux — This article is about using reflux in chemical engineering and chemistry. For the reflux of stomach acids, see articles on heartburn, acid indigestion, and gastroesophageal reflux. For the reflux of urine, see vesicoureteral reflux. Reflux is a… …   Wikipedia

• Reflux — The term used when liquid backs up into the esophagus from the stomach. * * * 1. A backward flow. SEE ALSO: regurgitation. 2. In chemistry, to boil without loss of vapor because of the presence of a condenser that returns vapor as liquid. [L. re …   Medical dictionary

• Liquid air — For the automobile, see Liquid Air. Liquid air is air that has been cooled to very low temperatures so that it has condensed to a liquid. It must be kept in a Dewar flask at room temperature. Liquid air can absorb heat rapidly and revert to its… …   Wikipedia

• reflux — 1. noun a) the backwards flow of any fluid ...after a little way out to sea, there was a current and wind, always one way in the morning, the other in the afternoon. This I understood to be no more than the sets of the tide, as going out or… …   Wiktionary

• reflux — n. a backflow of liquid, against its normal direction of movement. See also: (reflux) oesophagitis, vesicoureteric reflux …   The new mediacal dictionary

• reflux — [ ri:flʌks] noun 1》 Chemistry the process of boiling a liquid so that any vapour is liquefied and returned to the stock. 2》 technical the flowing back of a bodily fluid. verb 1》 Chemistry boil under reflux. 2》 technical (of a bodily fluid) flow… …   English new terms dictionary

• reflux — /ˈriflʌks/ (say reefluks) noun 1. a flowing back; ebb. –verb (t) 2. Chemistry to boil (a liquid) in a vessel attached to a condenser so that the vapour condenses and flows back for reboiling. –verb (i) 3. to flow back. {re + flux. Compare French… …  

• reflux — n. & v. n. 1 a backward flow. 2 Chem. a method of boiling a liquid so that any vapour is liquefied and returned to the boiler. v.tr. & intr. Chem. boil or be boiled under reflux …   Useful english dictionary

• reflux condenser — noun a water cooled, double walled piece of laboratory glassware that is fitted on top of a vessel of boiling liquid such that vapour condenses and flows back into the vessel, preventing the contents from boiling dry …   Wiktionary

• reflux condenser — /riflʌks kənˈdɛnsə/ (say reefluks kuhn densuh) noun a condenser attached to a vessel containing a boiling liquid so that the condensed vapour flows back into the vessel, thus preventing it from boiling dry …  

• reflux — The backward flow of liquid from the stomach into the esophagus …   English dictionary of cancer terms