Definition of Flocculating

1. Verb. (present participle of flocculate) ¹

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Definition of Flocculating

1. flocculate [v] - See also: flocculate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flocculating

floccinaucinihilipilificated
floccinaucinihilipilificates
floccinaucinihilipilificating
floccinaucinihilipilification
floccing
floccose
floccose chanterelle
flocculable
flocculant
flocculants
floccular
floccular fossa
flocculate
flocculated
flocculates
flocculating (current term)
flocculation
flocculation reaction
flocculation test
flocculation tests
flocculations
flocculator
flocculators
floccule
flocculence
flocculent
flocculent spiral galaxy
floccules
flocculi
flocculonodular

Literary usage of Flocculating

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Physical Properties of Soils: A Laboratory Guide by A. G. McCall (1909)
"... THIRTEENTH EXERCISE THE flocculating EFFECT OF LIME UPON CLAY SOILS THE addition of lime to a clay soil produces floccula- tion, or a grouping together ..."

2. Soil Physics Laboratory Manual by Jeremiah George Mosier, Axel Ferdinand Gustafson (1912)
"flocculating EFFECT OF LIME Use four shaker bottles with rubber stoppers. In the first put 200 cc. distilled water as a check, in the second 200 cc. of a ..."

3. Flotation by Thomas Arthur Rickard, Oliver Caldwell Ralston (1917)
"There is nothing inherently impracticable in the use of such flocculating agents in ore-dressing; this is already done in several industries and is a common ..."

4. Transactions of the American Ceramic Society Containing the Papers and by American Ceramic Society (1917)
"In Series 2 the slips were made up without flocculating agent and ground wet through 80 mesh screen, after standing 18 hours they were tempered with water ..."

5. Infection and Resistance: An Exposition of the Biological Phenomena by Hans Zinsser (1918)
"Thus acids (hydrogen ions) are very effective in flocculating arsenic ... however, show very different degrees of precipitating or flocculating power. ..."

6. International Medical and Surgical Surveyby American Institute of Medicine by American Institute of Medicine (1922)
"To test the finely flocculating agglutinins of typhoid sera, one strain of fowl typhoid and one of Gartner's bacillus was used, as Weil and Felix and also ..."

7. Proteins and the Theory of Colloidal Behavior by Jacques Loeb (1922)
"In order to be able to compare the relative flocculating efficiency of different salts the flocculating concentration is expressed in equivalents of cubic ..."

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