Deflux vs Reflux - What's the difference?
deflux | reflux |
the backwards flow of any fluid
* 1719-
(chemistry) a technique, using a reflux condenser, allowing one to boil the contents of a vessel over an extended period
(pathology) The leaking of stomach acid up into the oesophagus
To boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser
As nouns the difference between deflux and reflux
is that deflux is (obsolete) downward flow while reflux is the backwards flow of any fluid.As a verb reflux is
to boil a liquid in a vessel having a reflux condenser.reflux
English
(wikipedia reflux)Noun
(es)- ...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 coming in; but I afterwards understood it was occasioned by the great draft and reflux of the mighty river Orinoco...