## 3 Results and Discussion
### Investigation of the Mechanism of Sediment Formation in Sediment-Gelling Compositions
Ionomers have unique physical properties, including electrical conductivity and viscosity--a rise in the viscosity of an ionomer solution with increasing temperature. Ionomers also have unique morphological properties because the nonpolar polymer backbone is energetically incompatible with polar ionic groups. As a result, the ionic groups in most ionomers will undergo microphase separation to form ion-rich domains. As can be seen from Table 4, SGCs based on the L ionomer and alkali at low polymer concentrations of 0.075-0.15%, regardless of the concentration of alkali and the type of solvent, behave like Newtonian liquids. With a growth in the concentration of the ionomer \"L\" from 0.5% to 1%, SGCs behave like pseudoplastic fluids. \begin{table}
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**Water** & **NaOH, \%** & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**0.075**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**0.15**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**0.5**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**1**} \\ \cline{3-10}  & & & & & & & & & & \\ \cline{3-10}  & & & & & & & & & & \\ \cline{3-10}  & & & & & & & & & & \\ \cline{3-10}  & & & & & & & & & & \\ \hline \hline \multirow{6}{*}{fresh} & 0 & 0.006 & 0.8517 & 0.014 & 0.8156 & 0.101 & 0.7516 & 0.154 & 0.7686 \\ \cline{2-10}  & 0.1 & 0.004 & 1.0000 & 0.0067 & 1.0000 & 0.206 & 0.7362 & 0.339 & 0.7848 \\ \cline{2-10}  & 0.3 & 0.0035 & 1.0000 & 0.0058 & 1.0000 & 0.173 & 0.7192 & 0.253 & 0.7526 \\ \cline{2-10}  & 0.5 & 0.0032 & 1.0000 & 0.0055 & 1.0000 & 0.17 & 0.7161 & 0.248 & 0.7284 \\ \cline{2-10}  & 0.7 & 0.0024 & 1.0000 & 0.004 & 1.0000 & 0.168 & 0.714 & 0.217 & 0.7159 \\ \cline{2-10}  & 1 & 0.002 & 1.0000 & 0.0033 & 1.0000 & 0.114 & 0.6955 & 0.206 & 0.6698 \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular}
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Table 4: Dependence of the nature of the SGCs flow on the concentration of the polymer, alkali, and type of solvent. Figure 4: Particular dependences of rheological constants on each of the studied factors, subjected to statistical processing: (**a**) NaOH 0.1%; (**b**) PAA 0.05; (**c**) PAA 0.05, NaOH 0.1%; (**d**) PAA 0.05; (**e**) NaOH 0.1%; and (**f**) PAA 0.05, NaOH 0.1%. Moreover, with a growth in the concentration of alkali in SGCs, their pseudoplasticity increases, and the consistency coefficient for SGCs on fresh water decreases, while for SGCs on combined formation water, it increases. At all considered concentrations of the ionomer \"L\" (0.075-2.5%), its solutions in waters of various salinity in the absence of alkali behave like pseudoplastic liquids (see Table 4). The results of these studies are shown in Table 4 and Figure 5. As is evident from the table and figure, SGCs based on the L ionomer and alkali at low polymer concentrations of 0.075-0.15%, regardless of the concentration of alkali and the type of solvent, behave like Newtonian liquids (the exponent in the rheological model is equal to 1 or close to it). With a rise in the concentration of the ionomer \"L\" from 0.5% to 1%, SGCs behave like pseudoplastic fluids. Moreover, with an increase in the concentration of alkali in SGCs, their pseudoplasticity increases, and the consistency coefficient for SGCs on fresh water decreases; in contrast, for SGCs on combined formation water, it increases. At all considered concentrations of the ionomer \"L\" (0.075-2.5%), its solutions in waters of various salinity in the absence of alkali behave like pseudoplastic liquids (Table 4). In the noted works, \"rheological curves\" are given, expressing the dependence of shear stress on shear rate. As can be seen from the comparison of the data given in Tables 2 and 4, the concentration of sodium hydroxide leads to a weakening of the effect of the pseudoplastic properties of PAA-based SGCs and an increase for SGCs based on the \"L\" ionomer. Based on the results of the studies shown in Table 4, statistical processing was carried out and graphs were plotted, along with distributions of rheological constants in the plane and in space.