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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 presence of fats and oils in the seeds prevents flocculation, and the beer cannot keep its froth.
It is known that liposomes can be modified with poloxamers to prolong their circulation time in the blood stream as well as to prevent their flocculation, fusion, or binding.
The dredged mud-water mixture was cleaned in a flocculation treatment barge and an active carbon filtration system.
The fibres have a strong tendency to form three dimensional networks through mechanical intertwining or flocculation of the fibres when they are suspended in water.
Options for harvesting include centrifugation or chemical flocculation, which pushes all the microalgae together, but there are high costs associated with these processes too.

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