Research Article
Degradation of Methylene Blue Using Biologically Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles
Table 1
Methylene blue degradation (%) by synthesized silver nanopartilces (10 mg) analyzed by triplicate experiments.
| Exposure time | Amount of degradation of dye (%) |
| 1 h | 1.1 ± 0.30 | 2 h | 4.7 ± 0.15 | 3 h | 6.3 ± 0.25 | 4 h | 10.5 ± 0.47 | 21 h | 15.3 ± 0.14 | 22 h | 19.5 ± 0.65 | 24 h | 29.5 ± 0.33 | 41 h | 32.6 ± 0.20 | 42 h | 44.2 ± 0.10 | 44 h | 47.9 ± 0.50 | 45 h | 53.2 ± 0.75 | 46 h | 54.7 ± 0.27 | 48 h | 58.9 ± 0.18 | 65 h | 63.2 ± 0.23 | 66 h | 67.6 ± 0.58 | 70 h | 75.8 ± 0.67 | 71 h | 82.1 ± 0.15 | 72 h | 95.3 ± 0.30 |
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