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Bulletin of the National Research Centre

Table 2 pH, % of carbon, ash % and moisture % AC from seeds

From: Properties of natural adsorbent prepared from two local Sudanese agricultural wastes mango seeds and date's stones and their uses in removal of contamination from fluid nutrient

Parameter

MS (solid)

DS

**Standard adsorbent

pH

7

7

7.37–8.3

% of carbon*

61.4

21.8

13–65

Ash %*

9.0

9.5

4–9.32

Moisture %*

17.5

19.9

2–10

  1. *An average of triplicate reading
  2. **Commercial activated carbon from plant sources
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