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Fig. 5. The variation of free energy change ({Delta}G) with temperature for sorption of fluorene, phenanthrene, and pyrene on the geosorbents: {diamondsuit}, San Diego sediment (SD); {blacktriangleup}, Guanella Pass peat (GP); {blacksquare}, Allivar soil (AS); •, Poinsett soil (PS); and x, Hetland soil (HS). The open labels correspond to the extracted samples. The error bars represent the absolute standard deviations.