From the geology course I took in 1975: Minerals are naturally occurring crystals of compound. Snow is a mineral, but volcanic glass is not. Rocks are amalgams of minerals and non-minerals.
In corpus linguistics, a collocation is a sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than would be expected by chance. In phraseology, collocation is a sub-type of phraseme. An example of a phraseological collocation, as propounded by Michael Halliday, is the expression strong tea.
In colloid chemistry, flocculation refers to the process by which fine particulates are caused to clump together into a floc. The floc may then float to the top of the liquid (creaming), settle to the bottom of the liquid (sedimentation), or be readily filtered from the liquid.locculation (in polymer science) : When a sol is colloidally unstable (I.e., the rate of aggregation is not negligible) then the formation of aggregates is called floculation or coagulation. Agglomeration (except in polymer science). Coagulation (except in polymer science). Flocculation (except in polymer science).