Kyriakakis, G2015-07-022015-07-022015-07-02http://hdl.handle.net/10539/18042The extraction of aurocyanide by activated carbon probably involves the adsorption of neutral ion-pair species [M ^jAuCCN)^. The large hydrophobic aurocyanide anion associates with the cation in order to minimize the disruption of the water structure whereby lowering its free energyenCarbon, ActivatedThesis