FACTOID # 137: Sick people is Switzerland stay in hospital for longer than the people of any other nation - almost 10 days, on average. Switzerland also has the world's highest number of hospital beds per capita.
 
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Flocculation is a condition in which clays, polymers or other small charged particles become attached and form a fragile structure, a floc. In dispersed clay slurries, flocculation occurs after mechanical agitation ceases and the dispersed clay platelets spontaneously form flocs because of attractions between negative face charges and positive edge charges. The structure of a thing is how the parts of it relate to each other, how it is put together. This contrast with process, which is how the thing works; but process requires a viable structure. ... Clay is a generic term for an aggregate of hydrous silicate particles less than 4 μm (micrometres) in diameter. ...


Antonyms: deflocculation


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aggregation, clay-water interaction, deflocculent, deflocculate, floc, flocculant, flocculate, saltwater flow, spud mud Look up Aggregation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary The term aggregation may refer to— in economics, any attempt to bypass information asymmetry by systematically amassing information about prices and other features of goods on the market. ... Clay-water interaction is an all-inclusive term to describe various progressive interactions between clay minerals and water. ... A flocculant is a chemical which causes the particles in a colloidal dispersal to clump together and form flocs. Flocculants are commonly used to facilitate the removal by filtration of particles of impurity from a liquid which would otherwise be too fine to be caught by a filter. ... For information on water from a sea or ocean, see sea water. ... FLOW is a J-Pop group. ... Mud used to drill a well from surface to a shallow depth. ...


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