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SUBMITTER: Mrokowska MM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6536512 | biostudies-other | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Mrokowska Magdalena M MM Krztoń-Maziopa Anna A
Scientific reports 20190527 1
In this study, xanthan gum is used as a model exopolymer to demonstrate potential effects of non-Newtonian properties of natural aquatic systems on settling dynamics of particles. Rheological measurements combined with settling experiments using visualization methods revealed that instantaneous velocity fluctuations and a flow pattern formed around a particle are the effects of solution viscoelasticity and shear-thinning properties and that the average settling velocity depends on the exopolymer ...[more]