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- noun A
flocculating agent
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Examples
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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.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000
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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.
DELIVER US FROM EVIL William Shawcross 2000
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A hearty English ale yeast is essential—one that is highly attenuating and highly flocculant.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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Less flocculant yeast strains require the addition of finings in order to drop out of the beer before serving, or “drop bright.”
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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A hearty English ale yeast is essential—one that is highly attenuating and highly flocculant.
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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Less flocculant yeast strains require the addition of finings in order to drop out of the beer before serving, or “drop bright.”
SECRETS FROM THE MASTER BREWERS PATRICK HIGGINS 1998
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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.
Chapter 11 1994
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- Add flocculant to the slip so that glaze layer becomes thicker.
11. Glaze problems 1993
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- Add flocculant (magnesium sulfate, calcium chloride), but only if the ware has too low a porosity.
11. Glaze problems 1993
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Carbon dioxide from the air enters the slip and this acts as a flocculant which will make the slip less fluid.
7. Slip casting 1991
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