“…Samples were taken at specific time intervals (0, 0.5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 h) during the adsorption process and analyzed by atomic adsorption equipment. Kinetics data was analysis by the pseudo-first order and pseudo-second-order kinetic models with the aim to explain if adsorption was carried out by physisorption and chemisorption respectively [ 41 , 42 ], expressed in Equations (4) and (5) [ 40 ], where q e and q t are the adsorption capacity (mg g −1 ) in equilibrium and in contact at time t , respectively, C 0 , C t , and C e are the concentrations of Pb(II) (mg L −1 ) contained in the original solution, after time t and equilibrium, respectively, V is the volume of the solution (mL), and m represents the weight of Co-MTPhPyP (g) where k 1 (1 min −1 ) y k 2 (g mg −1 min −1 ) are the constants in these two models.…”