CONAN: I don't think we've ever used the word flocculate on the program before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing The BP Spill's Impact] Reference

LIME: When the soil is too clayey, 1 to 2% lime can be added to flocculate the soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 10] Reference

The Word of the Day for January 20, 2009 is: flocculate • \FLAH-kyuh-layt\ • verb.    From Wordnik.com.  [flocculate | clusterflock] Reference

If glazing vitrified ware is part of your standard production, then it is best to flocculate your glaze.    From Wordnik.com.  [9. Glaze application] Reference

During fermentation, yeast cells flocculate and either rise to the top or sink to the bottom of the vat.    From Wordnik.com.  [flocculate | clusterflock] Reference

And one of their foods is something called marine snow, which is a sort of a flocculate particle, fluffy-like stuff that settles down.    From Wordnik.com.  [Assessing The BP Spill's Impact] Reference

By the end of the 19th century, a whole word family had been formed, including the adjective “flocculent,” the noun “floccule,” and the verb “flocculate.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [flocculate | clusterflock] Reference

The use of salty water for this test will flocculate the clay and help it to settle, thus giving a clearly defined level in the bottle which can be measured more easily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 5] Reference

This was not crucial at the time as there were alternative sources of water available to the camp of 80,000 people and the fall-back option was to flocculate the river water.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Typical Scenarios] Reference

FLOCCULATION AND AGGREGATION: As a result of the cationic exchange and the increase in the quantity of electrolytes in the pore water, the soil grains flocculate and tend to accrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Yeasts have many convenient characteristics, such as the ability to use a wide variety of substrates such as hexoses, pentoses, and hydrocarbons (8; 9); susceptibility to induced and genetic variation (10), ability to flocculate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

If dispersion is the problem the classic solution is to begin leaching with water of sufficiently high salinity to de-flocculate the soil (if such water is available), at the same time providing gypsum for displacement of sodium.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 9] Reference

Inside the wells of this plate are yeast engineered with a genetic timer that causes them to flocculate, or aggregate to form sediment in a solution, at different times.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Review RSS Feeds] Reference

A quick Latin lesson: flocci is derived from floccus, literally a tuft of wool and the source of English words like flocculate, but figuratively in Latin something trivial; pili is likewise the plural of pilus, a hair, which we have inherited in words like depilatory, but which in Latin could meant a whit, jot, trifle or generally something insignificant; nihili is from nihil, nothing, as in words like nihilism and annihilate; nauci just means worthless. source.    From Wordnik.com.  [ideonexus.com » 2005 » July] Reference

January 20, 2009 flocculate.    From Wordnik.com.  [flocculate | clusterflock] Reference

+30 mV have tendency to flocculate.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

flocculate | clusterflock etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [flocculate | clusterflock] Reference

flocculate • \FLAH-kyuh-layt\ • verb.    From Wordnik.com.  [flocculate | clusterflock] Reference