Studies on the Removal of Cadmium Toxic Metal Ions by Natural Clays from Aqueous Solution by Adsorption Process

Table 3

Kinetic parameters of QC-MC and QC-MT.

Adsorbent	T (°C)	Pseudo-first-order		Pseudo-second-order
		K1 (min^−1)	R^2	K2 (g/mg.min)	R^2
QC-MC	25	0.025	0.86	0.28	0.97
QC-MT		0.047	0.89	0.75	0.99