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Competitive adsorption of methylene blue and crystal violet to montmorillonite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2018

G. Rytwo
Affiliation:
Seagram Center for Soil and Water Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
S. Nir
Affiliation:
Seagram Center for Soil and Water Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel
L. Margulies
Affiliation:
Seagram Center for Soil and Water Sciences, Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, PO Box 12, Rehovot 76100, Israel

Extract

Methylene blue (MB) and crystal violet (CV) have been found to be adsorbed in amounts greater than the cation exchange capacity (CEC) of clays (Hang & Brindley, 1970; Ghosal & Mukherjee, 1972; Venugopal & Nair, 1974).

In previous work (Rytwo et al., 1991), it was shown that CV adsorbs to montmorillonite up to 1·4 mmole dye/g clay. The amount of dye added in those experiments was up to 1·6 mM/g clay. Yet, when the added amount of CV and MB was 3·5 mM/g (Rytwo et al., unpublished), almost 1·6 (200% of the CEC) and 1·2 mM/g clay, respectively, were adsorbed. Margulies et al. (1988), who studied the adsorption of thioflavin T and MB to montmorillonite, showed that these dyes adsorb up to 1·4 and 1·2 mM dye/g clay, which corresponds to 175% and 150% of the CEC, respectively.

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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1993

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