“…However, flame atomic absorption spectroscopy and ICP-AES, both said to be highly sensitive, are not sensitive enough for phosphorus (their detection limits are 100 ppm and 30 ppb, respectively). 1) Instead, highly sensitive spectrophotometric methods using Molybdenum Blue [2][3][4][5][6][7] and Malachite Green 3,8) are generally used to analyse steel. Determination of extremely small amounts of phosphorus, hardly achievable by these spectrophotometric methods alone, needs the use of such separation and concentration methods as coprecipitation, 2,8) solvent extraction, 9) collection with membrane filter, 10) and ion exchange 11) in the analysis.…”