“…These charges are compensated by exchangeable hydrated inorganic cations. Pesticides, in a cationic form, such as chlordimeform, diquat, paraquat and difenzoquat can substitute to inorganic cations at the clay mineral geosorbent surface by cation-exchange processes (Weber & Weed, 1968, Rytwo et al, 2004. Cation exchange is also relevant for triazines (Sannino et al, 1999, Herwig et al, 2001) even though their pKa is lower than the pH of common soils (Kah & Brown, 2006).…”