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Mehrnaz Safarnia

Thanks dear Saeedeh, but during adsorption, other metals dissolved in solution due to hydrolysis can also interact with functional groups on adsorbents, and separating them after adsorption can be problematic.

Other metals such as Fe, Scandium, etc. can also be absorbed by membranes, however in this instance I plan on recovering only La. Fatima Boukhlifi