Use of the electronic particle counter to investigate phosphorus on particles in streams

✍ Scribed by A. B. Viner

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 394 KB
• Volume: 118
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-5141
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00046620

✦ Synopsis

A simple and rapid method is described for the measurement by electronic particle counter of the relative proportions of sediment particles, of diameters 1 to 40 #m, which could enter the stream suspended load. The method is useful to further investigations into nutrients borne upon such material because the amounts of phosphate per unit weight of particles varies through orders of magnitude depending upon the particle size. An example is given to illustrate the application of the method.