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The determination of ammonia in seawater
Author(s) -
Liddicoat M. I.,
Tibhitts Susan,
Butler E. I.
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1975.20.1.0131
Subject(s) - seawater , ammonia , liter , range (aeronautics) , standard deviation , chemistry , relative standard deviation , environmental chemistry , analytical chemistry (journal) , environmental science , chromatography , mathematics , thermodynamics , oceanography , materials science , statistics , geology , physics , detection limit , organic chemistry , composite material
A simple phenolhypochlorite method for the estimation of ammonia in seawater obeys Beer’s Law over the concentration range 0–20 µ g‐atoms NH 3 ‐N liter −1 ; the standard deviation on a set of samples containing 4 µ g‐atoms NH 3 ‐N liter −1 is 0.04.