“…This can be attributed to irreversibility or hysteresis during desorption. This is a common trend and has been reported for the desorption of a number of pesticides like atrazine (Swanson and Dutt, 1973;Raman et al, 1988), prometryn (Murray et al, 1975 andLaFleur, 1976), thiabendazole (Aharonson and Kafkafi, 1976), napropamide (Wu et al, 1975), 2,4,5-T (Koskinen et al, 1979;Koskinen and Cheng, 1983), fluormetryn (Savage and Wauchope, 1974) and parathion (Saltzman et al, 1972).…”