floccular
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]floccular (not comparable)
- (anatomy) Of or pertaining to the flocculus.
- (chemistry) Having flocs, or floccules.
- 2001, Dietrich Braun, Harald Cherdron, Helmut Ritter, Polymer Synthesis: Theory and Practice: Fundamentals, Methods, Experiments, 3rd edition, Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 64:
- The polymer solution is sprayed in the form of a mist into the precipitant, thereby producing a fine floccular precipitate, the large surface area of which favors the outward diffusion of unpolymerized monomer and other compounds present.