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Yes. The integers form a principal ideal domain, and over a principal ideal domain a module is flat exactly when it is torsion-free. Thus the torsion-free modules and are flat modules. The functor
is a composite of two exact tensor functors, so is flat. Applying the converse direction of the same characterization shows that it is torsion-free. This is the torsion-free module over a principal ideal domain is flat criterion.
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