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Certain Effects of Agitation Upon the Release of Phosphate from Mud

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

William Stephenson
William Stephenson
Affiliation:
Dove Marine Laboratory, University of Durham, Cullercoats, Northumberland
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When sea water is stirred with mud and then filtered, its phosphate concentration may either increase or decrease. When the filtrate is ultrafiltered, the concentration increases.

Similar increases occur when the filtrate is stored in glassware, and these obscure any effects of the presence of colloidal material. On storage concentrations rise for about 2 hr., and then fall to as low as 2 mg./m.3 P2O5 in 18 hr.

Rise and fall are both prevented by the addition of formalin, chloroform or toluene, and are more noticeable in small containing vessels. Both occur during either day or night, and when temperatures are either rising or falling.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , October 1949 , pp. 371 - 380
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1949

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