Table 1.

Previous studies about dissolution kinetics of boron mineral.

No	Author, year	Mineral	Solution	Method	Reference
1	Guliyev et al. (2012)	Colemanite	Potassium hydrogen sulphate	Analytical numerical	[8]
2	Guliyev et al. (2012)	Colemanite	Ammonium hydrogen sulphate	Analytical numerical	[22]
3	Demirkiran and Künkül (2011)	Ulexite	Ammonium carbonate	Graphical	[23]
4	Kuşlu et al. (2010)	Ulexite	Borax pentahydrate	Nonlinear regression	[10]
5	Çopur et al. (2010)	Colemanite	Water saturated with carbon dioxide	Statistical	[14]
6	Demirkiran (2009)	Ulexite	Ammonium nitrate	Numerical	[24]
7	Ekmekyapar et al. (2008)	Ulexite	Acetic acid	Numerical	[25]
8	Demirkiran (2008)	Ulexite	Ammonium acetate	Statistical	[20]
9	Alkan and Doğan (2004)	Colemanite	Oxalic acid	Statistical	[21]
10	Okur et al. (2002)	Colemanite	Sulfuric acid	Nonlinear regression	[26]
11	In this study	Colemanite	Water saturated with carbon dioxide	ANN