Degradation of Methylene Blue Using Biologically Synthesized Silver Nanoparticles

Table 1

Methylene blue degradation (%) by synthesized silver nanopartilces (10 mg) analyzed by triplicate experiments.

Exposure time	Amount of degradation of dye (%)
1 h	1.1 ± 0.30
2 h	4.7 ± 0.15
3 h	6.3 ± 0.25
4 h	10.5 ± 0.47
21 h	15.3 ± 0.14
22 h	19.5 ± 0.65
24 h	29.5 ± 0.33
41 h	32.6 ± 0.20
42 h	44.2 ± 0.10
44 h	47.9 ± 0.50
45 h	53.2 ± 0.75
46 h	54.7 ± 0.27
48 h	58.9 ± 0.18
65 h	63.2 ± 0.23
66 h	67.6 ± 0.58
70 h	75.8 ± 0.67
71 h	82.1 ± 0.15
72 h	95.3 ± 0.30

±Standard deviation.