“…The clay has high cation exchange capacity, large surface area, and structural stability (Ortega et al, 2013). These characteristics can be applied as adsorbent for removing contaminants in aqueous solutions, such as Cd(II)-Ni(II) (Ortega et al, 2013), Cu(II) and Zn(II) (Musso, Parolo, Pettinari, & Francisca, 2014), Cr(VI) (Zhao, Qi, Chena, & Zhang, 2015), Pb(II) (Georgescu, Nardou, Zichil, & Nistor, 2017), uranium (Gładysz-Płaska, Grabias, & Majdan, 2017), phosphate ions (Sinta, Suarya, & Santi, 2015), ammonium ions (Alshameri, He, Zhu, Xi, & Tao, 2017), essential oils (Nakhli et al, 2018), basic red 46 and direct blue 85 (Santos & Boaventura, 2016), and methylene blue, crystal violet, and congo red (Bentahar, Dbik, El Khomri, El Messaoudi, & Lacherai, 2017). The results showed that the clay has good ability to remove those contaminants, although the adsorption capacities were higher in dyes than others.…”