“…The majority of studies on the sorption kinetics have revealed a two-step behaviour of the adsorption systems (Brigatti et al, 2000;Csobán et al, 1998;Raji et al, 1998) with fast initial uptake and much slower gradual uptake afterwards, which might take days even months Csobán et al, 1998;Raji et al, 1998;Kumar et al, 2000;Ajmal et al, 2001;Lakatos et al, 2002;Chakir et al, 2002;Leist et al, 2000;Csobán & Joó, 1999). Some of the authors reported the optimum contact time of minutes (Kumar et al, 2000;Ajmal et al, 2001), whereas, at the other extreme, that of hundred hours (Brigatti et al, 2000;Lakatos et al, 2002) for equilibrium to be attained; and the average values reported for the heavy metal binding were of 1-5 hours (Csobán et al, 1998;Raji et al, 1998;Chakir et al, 2002;Leist et al, 2000;Csobán and Joó, 1999). It has been also stressed that adsorption thermodynamics is drastically affected by the equilibrium pH of the solutions.…”