Abstract

Knowledge of the ?- endosulfan adsorption characteristics of soil is necessary for predicting its mobility and fate in soil environments. To examine the characteristics of ?- endosulfan retention, sorption batch experiments were performed on three Xeropsamments soils having different properties. The sorption data were applied to various kinetics models. The results reveal that the tested models fitted the adsorption data in the order: first-order~modified Freundlich > parabolic diffusion >Elovich. The energy of ac