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Photoacoustic detection of orthophosphate in aqueous solution

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The photoacoustic spectroscopy at 633 nm wavelength of a 8 mW He-Ne laser has been used to measure the concentration of orthophosphate dissolved in distilled water. Determination is achieved through the combined use of the colorimetric molybdenum blue method with the high detection sensitivity offered by the photoacoustic technique. A concentration of 1 mmol m−3 (96 ppb) orthophosphate could readily be detected with the relatively simple experimental set-up.

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  1. Department of Agricultural Engineering and Physics, Laser Photoacoustic Laboratory, Wageningen Agricultural University, Duivendaal 1, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Dane Bicanic, Hans Sauren & Henk Jalink

  2. E. Siemers University, Hamburg, West Germany

    Wolf-Dietriech Kunze

  3. Department of Soil Science and Geology, Wageningen Agricultural University, Duivendaal 10, 6701, AP Wageningen, The Netherlands

    Marcel Lubbers

  4. Department of Physics, University of Oldenburg, P.O. Box 2305, 2900, Oldenburg, West Germany

    Eugen Strauss

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Bicanic, D., Kunze, WD., Sauren, H. et al. Photoacoustic detection of orthophosphate in aqueous solution. Water Air Soil Pollut 45, 115–120 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00208582

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