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What does flocculation mean?

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Noun
  1. A condition in which clays, polymers or other small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc.
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Palygorskite and sepiolite clays also are used because of their resistance to flocculation under high salinity conditions.
The facility incorporates a chromate removal station, which recovers iron, aluminum and chromium through flocculation.
Options for harvesting include centrifugation or chemical flocculation, which pushes all the microalgae together, but there are high costs associated with these processes too.
They are based on the precipitation, or flocculation, that takes place when antibody and specially prepared antigens are mixed together.
The dredged mud-water mixture was cleaned in a flocculation treatment barge and an active carbon filtration system.
In this process particles in the water, including the floc created by flocculation, are allowed to settle out of the water naturally by gravity's pull.

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