Often called runner's knee, chondromalacia patella is a common condition causing pain in the kneecap. The patella is covered with a layer of smooth cartilage, which normally glides across the knee when the joint is bent.ymptoms of chondromalacia include knee tenderness and pain that increases after sitting for a prolonged period of time, using stairs or getting out of a chair. There may also be a grating or grinding sensation when the knee is straightened.
Fluxus is an international avant-garde group or collective that was founded and flourished in the1960s but still continues today.
A ceramic flux functions by promoting partial liquification in clay bodies and glazes. Fluxes are used in glazes to lower the high melting point of the glass formers silica and boric trioxide.he most commonly used fluxing oxides in a ceramic glaze contain lead, sodium, potassium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, barium, zinc, strontium, and manganese. These are introduced to the raw glaze as compounds, for example lead as lead oxide. Boron is considered by many to be a glass former rather than a flux.