Mercerized mesoporous date pit activated carbon—A novel adsorbent to sequester potentially toxic divalent heavy metals from water

• Abdullah Aldawsari,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Moonis Ali Khan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mokhan@ksu.edu.sa, moonisalikhan@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0548-8581

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• B. H. Hameed,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation School of Chemical Engineering, Engineering Campus, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Nibong Tebal, Penang, Malaysia

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• Ayoub Abdullah Alqadami,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Masoom Raza Siddiqui,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• Zeid Abdullah Alothman,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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• A. Yacine Badjah Hadj Ahmed

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Chemistry, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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