“…Many of these rely on reduction of the phosphomolybdate complex resulting in the formation of molybdenum blue. A number of reducing agents have been used for this purpose: a mixture of sulfite and aminonaphtholsulfonic acid (29), stannous chloride (30), ascorbic acid (12,13), and ascorbate in the presence of bismuth (31) or antimony (14). A somewhat less-sensitive procedure relies on the formation of a yellow vanadomolybdophosphoric acid, which occurs when the phosphomolybdate complex is formed in the presence of vanadate (32).…”