flotation
floh tay shuhn
- n the phenomenon of floating (remaining on the surface of a liquid without sinking)
- n financing a commercial enterprise by bond or stock shares
- Its flotation was entirely dependent on whether the bilge pump could keep up with the leakage.
- Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers.
- But low-grade oxide ores, like Nevada's, evaded all ordinary flotation methods until the Bureau of Mines men hit on a new scheme: flotation in reverse with a new solvent.