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Flocculation

noun
1.
The process of flocculating; forming woolly cloudlike aggregations.





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"Flocculation" Quotes from Famous Books



... the first place, the tendency to puddle in a clayey soil is due to the fine state of division of the soil-particles. The way in which lime counteracts this adhesive property is by causing a coagulation of the fine soil-particles. This flocculation or aggregation of the fine clay-particles, when mixed with water by lime, is strikingly demonstrated by adding to some muddy water a little lime-water. The result will be that the water will speedily be rendered clear, the fine clay-particles coming together and sinking to the bottom of the ...
— Manures and the principles of manuring • Charles Morton Aikman


Words linked to "Flocculation" :   natural action, flocculate, action, activity, natural process


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