“…The studies have usually focused on the achievement of rheologically stable dispersion (Husband, 1998;Mpofu et al, 2003;Ma, 2011;Rao et al, 2011), the electrokinetic properties of the system (Braggs et al 1994;Alkan et al, 2005;Lagaly, 2006;Chassagne et al, 2009;Amorós et al, 2010;Duman et al, 2012;Leong et al, 2012), the adsorption isotherms (Backfolk et al, 2001;Marco and Llorens, 2005;Hoch and Bandara, 2005;Backfolk et al, 2006;Kwan et al, 2006Kwan et al, , 2011Totland et al, 2011), and the identification of the reaction mechanism causing the dissolution of metal ions from the particles (Huertas et al, 1998(Huertas et al, , 1999Yuan et al, 1998;Zaman et al, 2003). Dodson and Somasundaran (1983) studied the desorption of polyacrylamide and hydrolyzed polyacrylamide from the kaolinite surface.…”