At industrial scale, this process is accelerated by sand coated in protein from M. oleifera Lam seeds. The rate of this process is measured by a “gang stirrer” that simultaneously agitates six jars containing kaolin. Osmotic pressure drives this process by “depletion” once the volume fraction of p-DADMAC or polyacrylamide reaches a threshold. Zymolectins are alternately named for this process, which occurs spontaneously to (*) yeast if calcium remains at the end of a beer fermentation. After microbes oxidize pollutants during wastewater clarification, this process entraps them in an activated sludge. In this process, the opposite of peptization, aluminum salts bring the zeta potential close to zero and destabilize particles in a suspension. For 10 points, name this process in which a colloid collapses. ■END■
ANSWER: flocculation [or floccing or forming a floc or other word forms; accept coagulation or coagulating or other word forms; accept coagulation-flocculation or flocculation-coagulation; prompt on water treatment until read; prompt on clarification or clarifying until read; prompt on coalescence or coalescing or other word forms; prompt on agglomeration or conglutination or word forms; prompt on clumping or aggregation or word forms; reject “precipitation”; reject “settling” or “sedimentation”]
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