Principle

Principle

Ascorbic acid method

Ammonium molybdate and potassium antimonyl tartarate reacts in acid medium with orthophosphate to form a heteropoly phosphomolybdic acid that is reduced to intensely colored molybdenum blue by ascorbic acid and the extinction is measured at 885 nm.

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