“…For heavy metal sorption, it was found that the increase in pH increases uptake capacity of heavy metals such as Cd, Pb, Ni, Cu, and Zn in both the acidic and the neutral range (pH 2–7). The rate of increase under highly acidic conditions (pH 2–4) was mostly higher than that observed at milder acidic conditions (pH 4–6) [6, 72, 84, 100–102, 104, 108, 125, 129, 130]. Under basic conditions (pH > 7), heavy metal uptake decreased with pH [100, 101, 108].…”