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THE reaction between phosphate and aluminium hydroxide is important in soil fertility and also in the management of systems whereby waste water is disposed directly on to the land. The retention of phosphate by a sandy topsoil during 50 yr of application of raw sewage water cannot be accounted for by adsorption on soil constituents alone1. It was suggested that precipitation of the phosphate had probably taken place. Later investigations on this soil (Beek, personal communications) indicated the presence of an aluminium phosphate as the main fraction of phosphate retained. We report here results for the production of aluminium phosphate which may have a bearing on waste water management.
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VAN RIEMSDIJK, W., WESTSTRATE, F. & BOLT, G. Evidence for a new aluminium phosphate phase from reaction rate of phosphate with aluminium hydroxide. Nature 257, 473–474 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/257473a0
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