Research Article

Adsorption of Basic Brown and Chrysophenine from Water Solution by Magnesium Silicate Gel

Table 2

Second-order kinetics values calculated for the adsorption of the two dyes on magnesium silicate gel.

DyesC0/KFirst-orderSecond-order
mg⋅g−1/min−1R2/mg⋅g−1/mg⋅g−1k2/g⋅mg−1⋅min−1R2

Basic Brown2980.01870.95176.676.920.01801.000
3080.03770.97376.476.920.01331.000
3180.00430.94476.174.070.01901.000

Chrysophenine2980.00920.97256.860.615.44 × 10−40.9975
3080.00790.99476.458.825.47 × 10−40.9980
3180.0090.99376.157.474.90 × 10−40.9974