Figure 5.

Average settling velocity of a particle U (a,b) and drag C_D (c,d) as a function of xanthan gum content in solution C. Error bars indicate standard deviation, number of experiment repetitions given in Supplementary Table 5. Lines represent the fits of experimental data with exponential model, parameters shown in Supplementary Table 2. C_D was evaluated with Eq. (6) only for experiments where ${\mathrm{Re}}_{\mathrm{M}}(\dot{\gamma })<1$.