“…The extraction efficiency of HCl is dependent on the concentration and extraction time (Snape et al, 2004;Yu et al, 2021). The HCl concentrations differ within separate studies: 0.1 M (Giancoli Barreto et al, 2004;Yu et al, 2004;Wei et al, 2005;Menzies et al, 2007;Hyeop-Jo Han et al, 2020;Fu et al, 2020;Gil-Díaz et al, 2021), 0.2 M (Kuo et al, 2006;Leleyter et al, 2012), 0.5 M (Agemian and Chau, 1976;Gaiero et al, 2003;Sutherland et al, 2004) or 1 M (Snape et al, 2004;Hamdoun et al, 2015b;Yu et al, 2021). EDTA is one of the most widely used complexing reagent because of its high extraction capacity (Sahuquillo et al, 2003).…”