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To aggregate into small lumps.
To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates; to make granular or crumbly; as, the flocculating of a soil improves its mechanical condition.
Fine particles such as clays clump together forming larger particles when placed in seawater. The particles are attracted because they have tiny electrical charges on their surfaces.
To form flocculent masses, which are clumps like wool, according to my dictionary. It's typically used to describe what happens to the yeast when it quits partying and settles out of the must.
A process by which dissolved substances come out of solution and aggregate together to form macroscopic particles.
To form lumps or masses. See Interpet Green Away Water treatment and Filter choices
cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate; "The chemist flocculated the suspended material"
form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass; "the protoplasms flocculated"
To aggregate into larger agglomerates, to increase in size to the point where precipitation occurs, or to facilitate precipitation.
To form lumps or masses. show...
A mass loosely formed by the aggregation of a number of fine suspended particles. Aggregates destabilized particles into larger and more easily settleable masses.
To cause soil to form in lumps or masses.
To cause (soil) to form small lumps or masses.
To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates; to make granular or crumbly; as flocculation of a pond causes organic particles to clump together into larger clumps that can be filtered, or will sink.
metal precipitates that build up in streams as sediment.
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