Concerning the adsorbent dose for example iron nanoparticle to remove dye. Sometime it is written as
1- "the run was conducted by adding different dose of iron from 10 to 150 mg to 50 ml working solution of 30 mg/l of dye".
Other research paper mentioned
2- "the run was conducted by adding different dose of iron from 10 to 150 mg/l to 50 ml working solution of 30 mg/l of dye".
In case #1 it is clear that I have to add 10 to 150 mg of adsorbent to 50 ml. But I'm a bit confused in case #2. Should I have to prepare adsorbent solution with that concentration?? Or 10 to 150 mg of adsorbent will be calculated in 50 ml of adsorbate, i.e. in case of 10 mg of adsorbent dose, I have to add 0.5 mg of adsorbent to 50 ml working solution