The following article has been retracted from publication in the Taylor & Francis journal
Desalination and Water Treatment:
S. Benyoucef & M. Amrani, Adsorptive removal of phosphate from aqueous solution by chemically modified biosorbent, Desalin. Water Treat., 44 (2012), 306-313. DOI: 10.1080/19443994.2012.691740
Subsequent to publication it has been determined that the article contains significant overlap with the following two articles:
Salah Benyoucef and Moussa Amrani (2011) Adsorption of phosphate ions onto low cost Aleppo pine adsorbent, Desalination, Vol 275:1–3, 231–236. DOI: 10.1016/j.desal.2011.03.004
Salah Benyoucef and Moussa Amrani, Removal of phosphorus from aqueous solutions using chemically modified sawdust of Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller): kinetics and isotherm studies, The Environmentalist (2011), 31(3), 200–207. DOI: 10.1007/s10669-011-9313-1
We, the Editors and Publishers of Desalination and Water Treatment, note that we received, peer-reviewed, accepted, and published the article in good faith based on the warranties made by the authors. The retracted article will remain online to maintain the scholarly record, but it will be digitally watermarked on each page as retracted.
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October 2016