Greetings from Costa Rica.
I have an M.A. in Physical Science and a B.S. in Physics from San Diego State University, California, USA.
For my master's thesis, I built and tested a prototype "Ocean Wave Driven Air Pump" in the Scripps Oceanographic Institute in La Jolla, CA in 1970-1971. The test...
I don't have a direct answer to your specific question but I found a video that explains the process of flocculation and may help your understanding.
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/mit-k12/mit-k12-materials/v/flocculation
In practice we have built a cob cottage. The cob mixture...