floc
/flɒk
/noun technical
A loosely clumped mass of fine particles.PAM is a water-soluble polymer that clumps the fine, suspended particles typical of swine manure into larger particles, or flocs....
- Microsand particles and polymer are added to the floc in the same tank.
- Because of the difficulties of moving the floc, emptying the tanks could take up to six months.
Origin
1920s: abbreviation of flocculus.
Rhymes
- cricket society
- cricket spike
- cricket teal
- cricket test
- cricketty
- cricket week
- cricket whites
- crickety
- Crick, Francis
- crickle
- crickle-crackle
- crickling
- cricoarytaenoid
- cricoarytenoid
- cricoid
- cricoidal
- cricoid cartilage
- cricondenbar
- cricondentherm
- cricopharyngeal
- cricothyroid
- cricotomy
- cricotracheal
- cri de cœur
- cri du chat syndrome