(Possible NSFW) Without looking it up, what do you think "flocculation" means?

I will look it up after making a fool of myself trying to guess the definition. It seems to be a combination of flux and oscillate so I am guessing that it means flow variation.

It’s what happens when milk is churned into butter.
Or is that de-flocculation?

In my field, flocculant discharge means that it has chunks in it, usually referring to pus with cheesy chunks.

A ceremony in which a large number of geese receive their diplomas.

Aaah, I googled it. Will come in handy with sounding like I have a clue when I do my work, talking to members who work in that field.

I haven’t looked it up, but I will after I make a fool of myself attempt an answer: I agree with @syz that it means a fluid that contains or develops chunks, much like the churning of butter, or the aforementioned “pus with cheesy chunks”. (Mmmmm! Butter!)

Are you sure it isn’t what teenagers do under the blankets with a flashlight and a copy of Penthouse?

Since I understand French and “flocon” is a flake (like a snowflake: flocon de neige, or a cornflake: flocon de mais), I’m going to guess that flocculation means to make something flaky.

edit: Hmm. I just realized that “flocking” in English probably comes from the same root. Since flocking is made of lots of little fibres stuck to something, and “flocon” is French for flake, I’m going to modify my answer somewhat. I think “flocculation” might mean combining lots of little things into a flake the same way corn meal is turned into cornflakes and water molecules are grown into snowflakes.

I used to home-brew beer and know all about yeast flocculation. I used to use dry Isinglass finings as a clarifier.

Shit. This was a word of the day in my Physical Science class in my freshman year of high school. Mr. Storm inadvertently spit when he said the word, so I jokingly speculated that it meant accidentally spitting.

I’m sorry, I read the other post, so I’ll just ejaculate something fun into the conversation.

@Adirondackwannabe That is called eflacculating not to be confused with flocculation.

The action of assembling a flock? Fucking something? I denno.

Flock of Seagulls.

I love these answers. It sure sounds pornographic to me.

Well, feel free to google it. I bought a gallon of it – enough to flocculate 64000 gallons!

@LuckyGuy Wouldn’t that gallon be used to ‘deflocculate’ your pond?

I just read a book with that word in it, it has something to do with yeast in the beer brewing process.

If one gallon will flagellate floculate 64K gallons…that’s some concentrated stuff!

It could also mean vaccinating (innoculating) a flock of geese, right!

Flock you!

@jca And to you as well. :-)

Seriously. What kind of word is that? Couldn’t they come up with something nicer sounding? Sheesh!

Will the precipitate serve any function in sealing your pond? Was the floculant you got specific to the clay material you used? I assume there are a number of different materials that would need different stuff to make it settle out.

@majorrich Yes it is specific. I asked about it in another Q and @cazzie answered by saying I needed a cationic flocculent. She was spot on!