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- n. A flocculating agent
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“In the tunnel it passed first through a skid consisting of three chemical containers that added a flocculant, which bonded to the suspended particles in the water.”
“Less flocculant yeast strains require the addition of finings in order to drop out of the beer before serving, or “drop bright.””
“A hearty English ale yeast is essential—one that is highly attenuating and highly flocculant.”
“Four main salts are used: sodium chloride: flocculent and aid to compaction; effective in non-saline soils; calcium chloride: impermeabilizing agent; ferric chloride: powerful coagulant and flocculant; aluminium chloride: electrolytic coagulant, electrochemical consolidation of soil.”
“- Add flocculant to the slip so that glaze layer becomes thicker.”
“- Add flocculant (magnesium sulfate, calcium chloride), but only if the ware has too low a porosity.”
“Carbon dioxide from the air enters the slip and this acts as a flocculant which will make the slip less fluid.”
“Perhaps the company's biggest breakthrough, then, is its $1.2 billion investment in a method that treats tailings with chemical flocculant to speed their drying into more easily reclaimable matter.”
“Alcantar found that the mucilage acted as a flocculant, causing the sediment particles to join together and settle to the bottom of the water samples.”
“Aluminium levels in water can be attributed either to its natural presence in soil or as a result of its usage as a flocculant to remove impurities during water treatment processes.”
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