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EXPERIMENTS have been conducted in this laboratory on the sorption of dissolved organic matter from sea-water on in situ precipitates of ferric and aluminium hydroxides. Particular attention was paid to the sorption of dissolved organic phosphorus compounds with the view of facilitating the preservation of total phosphate samples collected on oceanographic cruises. It was found that all the dissolved phosphorus in sea-water (both inorganic orthophosphate and organically combined phosphorus) can be removed from solution on a combined precipitate of aluminium and magnesium hydroxides. The following procedure is recommended.
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NEWELL, B. Sorption of Dissolved Phosphorus from Sea-water by means of Aluminium Hydroxide. Nature 195, 72–73 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/195072a0
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