It is the process of collecting particles together by creating bonds between them.

Generally, a gauze filter is attached to the inlet to collect larger particles.

On its journey, the Stardust also spent 195 days collecting particles flowing through the solar system from stars far out in space.

Stardust also spent 195 days collecting interstellar particles that flow through the solar system.

The latter are generally very efficient for collecting fine particles.

These 3 cm long animals live close to shore and hover above the sea floor, constantly collecting particles.

They feed by collecting tiny particles from the water.

Higher efficiency models can collect particles down to 10 μm.

Instruments for collecting and examining small particles suspended in the water.

Inside the canister some, if not all, of the plates that had been collecting particles from the Sun lay shattered.