Vocabulary : Flos-ferri to Flotation process

Flos-ferri : A variety of aragonite, occuring in delicate white coralloidal forms; -- common in beds of iron ore.
Flosh : A hopper-shaped box or /nortar in which ore is placed for the action of the stamps.
Floss : The slender styles of the pistillate flowers of maize; also called silk. ;; Untwisted filaments of silk, used in embroidering. ;; A small stream of water. ;; Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present. ;; A body feather of an ostrich. Flosses are soft, and gray from the female and black from the male.
Flossification : A flowering; florification.
Flossy : Pertaining to, made of, or resembling, floss; hence, light; downy.

Flota : A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
Flotage : The state of floating. ;; That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
Flotant : Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.
Flotation : The act, process, or state of floating. ;; The science of floating bodies. ;; Act of financing, or floating, a commercial venture or an issue of bonds, stock, or the like.
Flotation process : A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface, though, perhaps, having a greater specific gravity than those that sink.

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