The physicochemical characteristic of activated carbon, prepared from Typha latifolia L. by phosphoric acid, was analyzed by spectroscopic analysis. Batch sorption of Cu2+ and Zn2+ ions in aqueous solutions was investigated under different pH value, adsorption time, original content of metal ions, sorbent amount, and temperature. Results showed that adsorption capacity of Cu2+ and Zn2+ increased with the increase of pH value of solution. It needed only about 10 min to reach equilibrium adsorption and pseudo second‐order sorption model was use...