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Comparison of Several Methods of Determining Inorganic Phosphate in Sea Water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. G. W. Jonesx  and
C. P. Spencer
P. G. W. Jonesx*
Affiliation:
Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
C. P. Spencer
Affiliation:
Marine Science Laboratories, Menai Bridge, Anglesey
*
1Present address: Fisheries Laboratory, Lowestoft
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Five methods of estimating dissolved inorganic phosphate in sea water are compared. Membrane-filtered inshore water from the Menai Straits was used in the study.

Wooster and Rakestraw's method gave higher results than Harvey's procedure. This was caused by some unidentified factor resulting in a non-sensitized reduction of molybdate in the former method.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 43 , Issue 1 , February 1963 , pp. 251 - 273
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1963

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