"circulate the idea" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to express the idea that someone should spread information about a particular concept or idea. For example, "The team decided to circulate the idea of launching a new product line to gauge public interest."
He also said that "the tabloid press are circulating the idea of concentration camps for persons with AIDS".
He had been circulating the idea of a portable machine he called a Dynabook that anticipated many features of the laptop computer.
Some league administrators, such as former NHL senior vice-president and director of hockey operations Colin Campbell, have been circulating and the idea of banning fighting in response to incidents such as the Fedoruk Orr fight.
The seeds of an overhaul are seen in the list of policy ideas circulating the trading commission.
Talk of some kind of oil "swap" has also circulated, based on the idea that U.S. producers could get a better price for their light-sweet crude in Mexico while Texas and Louisiana refineries built to run on heavy-sour grades could get more of that type of oil from Mexico, albeit at lesser rates than in the past.
Although none referred to a specific vascular route used by the PGCs, their methods to collect circulating PGCs support the idea that the majority of the PGCs indeed concentrate and use the sinus terminalis and anterior vitelline veins as an effective way to reach the embryo via the omphalomesenteric veins that enter the heart.
The more ideas we have circulating, the more potential there is for them to collide and breed innovative new forms.
To circulate his idea, Mr. Levine has also posted an explanation of his invention at www.betalab.org.
In a few years, scientists will look back and will struggle to believe that they used to exist in a world where it took 12 months to circulate a scientific idea around the world.
