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Flocculate

Flocculate Meaning & Definition
Flocculate Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Flocculate?

[v] form into an aggregated flocculent mass, as of protoplasms

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Flocculate In Webster's Dictionary

\Floc"cu*late\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Flocculated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Flocculating}.] (Geol.) To aggregate into small lumps.
\Floc"cu*late\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.
\Floc"cu*late\, v. t. To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates; to make granular or crumbly; as, the flocculating of a soil improves its mechanical condition. When applied to clay soils it [lime] binds the small particles together, or flocculates them. --I. P. Roberts.

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