The flocculating properties of polymer-colloid complexes (PCCs) formed via noncovalent interactions of positively charged aluminoxane particles (APs) with macromolecules of weakly charged cationic acrylamide copolymers from the Praestol and Organopol series have been studied. The PCCs that spontaneously formed during mixing of sols of a high-basicity aluminum polyhydroxochloride (APHC) with aqueous solutions of the copolymers exhibit high flocculating ability under the conditions of gravity sedimentation of the model kaolin dispersion with Сd = 8 g/dm3, and their efficiency exceeds both that of the copolymers and the earlier obtained PCCs with nonionogenic polyacrylamide (PAA). In contrast to weakly charged polycationites, the fully charged KF-99 polyelectrolyte does not form PCCs and the products of its mixing with APHC do not reveal an increased flocculating effect
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