“…With respect to specific adsorption, the observation is that multivalent electrolytes that tend to form hydrolysis species can reverse the sign of the ζ -potential at rather low concentrations and often at quite low surface charge densities 1 (e.g., Matijević et al, 1962Matijević et al, , 1964Matijević et al, , 1971James and Healy, 1972;James et al, 1977;Lyklema and Golub, 2007;Jiménez et al, 2012). The usual reasoning is that such hydrolysis products appear to have a rather high affinity for specific adsorption at the iHp.…”