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The use of organic basic dyes for the determination of the surface adsorption in different materials is one of the oldest ways of measuring the adsorption capacity or the amount of exchange sites of small-size particles and colloidal material (Mäkitie and Erviö, 1966). Methylene blue (MB) is an organic cationic dye with formula C16H18N3SCI.3H20. The molecule can be regarded approximately as a rectangular volume of dimensions 17.0 x 7.6 x 3.3 Å. The projected area of the molecule has been given by several authors (quoted in Hang and Brindley, 1970; Taylor, 1985). Estimated values ranged between 130-135 Å2.
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Arias, M. et al. (1999). Adsorption of Methylene Blue by Red Mud, An Oxide- Rich Byproduct of Bauxite Refining. In: Berthelin, J., Huang, P.M., Bollag, JM., Andreux, F. (eds) Effect of Mineral-Organic-Microorganism Interactions on Soil and Freshwater Environments. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4683-2_39
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