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Phosphate with AgNO3

Transmitted Near Crossed Circular Polarized Light Illumination

Definition/Function:
The presence of phosphate ions in solution can be determined by the addition of a small droplett of 10% silver nitrate solution at the edge of the test solution.

Significance in the Environment:
This example was created by adding the silver nitrate test solution to a dilute solution of an unknown precipitate removed from a concentated sodium hypochlorite solution and dissolved in dilute nitric acid.

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References:
Chamot, Emile Monnin and Clyde Walter Mason, HANDBOOK OF CHEMICAL MICROSCOPY, Volume II, pp. 317 and 337-8, 1940.