The role of Antimony potassium tartrate is to increase the rate of reduction of ascorbic acid to form a intensely colored blue complex.
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Murphy, J. and J. P. Riley. A modified single solution method for the determination of phosphate in natural waters. Analytica Chimica Acta,1962, 27, 30.
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