“…The trend of increasing Ea values as with inhibitor concentrations has been reported by other researchers on studies on various plant extract such as jujube leaves (Sivakumar and Mohana, 2012), black pepper (Quraishi et al, 2009), sunflower leaves (Cang et al, 2012), and piper nigrum extract (Norzila and Anis, 2015). It has been reported that lower Ea value in the presence of inhibitors in comparison to the blank is attributed to chemical adsorption (Solomon et al, 2010;Thirumoolan et al, 2014;Mouheddin et al, 2018). Since, the Ea increased in the presence of inhibitor compared to the blank, the mechanism of corrosion can be ascribed to physical adsorption (physisorption) mechanism.…”