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What is the adjective for flocculation?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs flocculate and flock which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

flocculated
  1. Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Syneresis cracks can develop in clays that have flocculated before settling.”
      “These can be flocculated forming a High Density Sludge which once settled can give a relatively clear overflow, which is discharged to the rivers.”
      “Many naturally-occurring soils, such as flocculated clays, varved silts or sands, are typically deposited via sedimentation over long periods.”
flocky
  1. Abounding with flocks; floccose.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The table linen was decorated with a pair of ostriches and their flocky babies resting in a green grassland.”
      “In fact, after several hours this flocky structure was deposited on the bottom of the glassware by flowing slowly the solution.”
      “Today, however, this beer would no longer be a hit due to its too flocky consistency.”
floccose
  1. (botany) Covered or growing in wooly tufts.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Colonies were 40 mm in diameter, white, floccose, and attached to the surface of the medium.”
      “Such a trama is said to be vesiculose to distinguish it from the ordinary or floccose trama.”
      “The gills are said to be of one color and the ring floccose, viscose, and evanescent in drying.”
flocked
  1. Having split, bushy ends (of bristles).
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The flocked paintbrush produced beautifully textured strokes with its split, bushy bristles.”
flocklike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of flocks.
flockless
  1. Without a flock.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A number of wandering and flockless preachers hawked challenges from town to town.”
flocculating
  1. present participle of flocculate
flocking
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