- P-ISSN 1225-0163
- E-ISSN 2288-8985
A sensitive method for the determination of trace amounts of phosphate by fluorescence-quenching detection / FIA is proposed. The fluorescence of Rhodamine B(RB) was quenched with the formation of the ion associate of molybdophosphate with RB;<TEX>${\lambda}_{ex}$</TEX> and <TEX>${\lambda}_{em}$</TEX> were 560nm and 580nm, respectively. A calibration graph was linear over the ranges from <TEX>$10^{-8}$</TEX> to <TEX>$3{\times}10^{-6}M$</TEX> of phosphate (~0.3~93ppb of phosphorus). The relative standard deviation was 1.2% with <TEX>$8{\times}10^{-7}M$</TEX> phosphate solution and sampling rate was 15 samples / h. The proposed method was applied to the determination of phosphate in sea and river water samples.