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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Environ Sci Technol. 2010 Aug 15;44(16):6390–6395. doi: 10.1021/es101165c

Table 2.

The selectivity of sorbents toward the Cu2+ in sea water (pH ~7.5); initial metal concentration of 100 ppb each and L/S ratio of 5 g/L.

Metal
ions		 % Removal
EDA-SAMMS AC-CH2-EDA Phen-FMC Chelex-100 Darco KB-B
Ca2+ 1 0 0 7 0
Fe2+/Fe3+ 5 0 2 0 0
Ni2+ 91 41 14 91 0
Zn2+ 97 37 28 96 7
Cu2+ 97 97 99 97 80