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We employed chemical hardness to explain the adsorption behaviour of Cr(VI) anions on metal oxide sorbents. In the absence of electrostatic attraction at pH values around the point of zero charge, silica and titania nanoparticles adsorbed a very small amount of Cr(VI) anions. This lack of adsorption is because the magnitude of the chemical hardness is too high to pair with the less hard Cr(VI) anions...