The term used to describe what clays, polymers or other small charged particles do when they become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc. In dispersed clay slurries, flocculation occurs after [..]

"gather in flocculent masses," 1845 (flocculated), from flocculus (1799), from Modern Latin, a diminutive of Latin floccus "flock of wool" (see flock (n.2)) + -ate (2). Related: Fl [..]

To aggregate individual particles into small clusters; the aggregation of soil particles into variously shaped small groups (crumbs, plates, clods, prisms) that create structure.

A process by which dissolved substances come out of solution and aggregate together to form macroscopic particles. flood

(v) form into an aggregated lumpy or fluffy mass(v) cause to become a fluffy or lumpy aggregate

To aggregate individual particles into small groups or granules; used especially with reference to clay and colloid behavior.

(ambitransitive) To collect together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool. * I. P. Roberts *: When applied to clay soils it [lime] binds the small particles together, or flocculates [..]