Content of review 1, reviewed on February 01, 2021

Comments on Title

1- The title should more interesting and include more information about the work's novelty.

Comments on Abstract

2- The aim of this study appears clearly in the abstract. However, the authors should include some of the obtained experimental results in the abstract.

Comments on References

3-The references included in this paper are relevant and referenced correctly in the text. However, recent references are needed for this paper.

Comments on introduction and background

4- The knowledge about the aforementioned topic is clearly introduced. However, the introduction and background about clay structure and properties are missing, these details need to be added?

Comments on methodology

5- The authors did not provide any details about the characterization of the used clay samples? 6- The authors also did not include any equations related to the adsorption studies?

Comments on data and results

8- The data were well presented. moreover, tables, figures, columns, and rows were labeled correctly. Statistically significant results were clearly obtained in this paper and the results practically meaningful.

Comments on discussion and conclusions

10- The conclusion was moderately answered the research aims and questions. The conclusion was supported by results however more details about the findings in this paper need to be added to the conclusion.

Source

    © 2021 the Reviewer.

References

    Khan, R. R. A., M., K. 2016. Adsorption studies of Cd(II) on ball clay: Comparison with other natural clays. Arabian Journal of Chemistry.