The adsorption behavior of dye extracted from Justicia carnea using aqueous method was studied. The dye extract was used to dye cotton fabric treated with a mordant and cotton fabric without mordant. Dyeing was done at 50？C, 60？C and 70？C with Aluminium Potasium Sulphate as mordant. The effluent after dyeing was characterized using FTIR and UV-VIS spectrophotometer. The result of the UV-VIS spectrophotometer confirmed the presence of emodin, a flavonoid in the dye extract. Dye uptake was found to be higher at all temperatures for fabrics without mordant. The adsorption studies showed that the adsorption mechanism fits the pseudo-second order kinetic model with the R2 of 0.99. The results also showed that dyeing at 60？C favours dyeing of cotton fabric without mordant while dyeing at 50？C favours dyeing with pre-mordanted cotton fabric.
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