Talk:Flux melting

Flux melting is a physiochemical process, not just a geologic one. Volatile compounds are commonly added to metals to reduce the melting point of these metals in many engineering applications. Fluxes are important tools in smelting and refining processes as well (discussed in Flux(metallurgy). Elriana (talk) 02:49, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Fluxes are also used in analytics to make a melt out of a sample. The article needs some expansion. --Tobias1984 (talk) 14:50, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

This term "flux melting" is a specialty term made up in igneous petrology to describe a process that already has a well defined name: "melting-point depression". There are many mobile components during volatile-assisted melting (i.e., many fluxes), so the term is confusing as well. At a minimum, the entry needs to cite the paper that originally introduced the term and to demonstrate that there is a need for a special term.MuTau (talk) 14 July 2015