Wax-like flow

Meaning

Wax-like flow is one of the apparently contrasting qualities of the completed stone: it is stable in fire yet capable of flowing. In the fault-list, failure to melt and flow in the expected way accompanies failures of tinging and endurance. The comparison concerns behaviour, not identity with wax, and no wax is thereby named as an ingredient. Fixity consequently cannot simply mean remaining hard or never becoming fluid. The lexicon records the relation of properties without turning the described test into an instruction. The source prints warflüssigen; its rendering as wax-like flow is supported by the later explicit comparison with Wachs, without independently settling the unusual spelling.