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<div class="definition"><div class="short_definition">(Sometimes, [[flux]].) The rate at which any physical quantity is transported (usually in  a hemisphere of directions) across a unit area.</div><br/> <div class="paragraph">The term "flux" indicates flow (rate of [[transport]]), and "density" here is an areal (as opposed  to volumetric) density. Flux densities often may be written in the form ''pnv'', where ''n'' is the number  density (volumetric) of carriers of a property ''p'' (e.g., mass, charge, [[momentum]], [[energy]]) and ''v'' is  their speed.</div><br/> </div>
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