What are Cation Exchange and Cation Exchange Capacity? Soil clay minerals and organic matter tend to be negatively charged, thus attracting positively charged ions (cations) on their surfaces by electrostatic forces. As a result, the cations remain within the soil root zone and are not easily lost through leaching. The adsorbed cations may easily exchange with other cations in the soil solution...

Research on natural zeolites (NZ) has increased over the years, showing potential in different areas, and many of them involve cation exchange (CE), considered one essential properties NZ. This work aims to identify studies’ cognitive structure based capacity (CEC) NZ through bibliometric analysis evaluate scientific production, growth trend, visualization maps using VOSviewer software. All typ...