1 | Appearance/Description | Clear, Colourless, odourless liquid of syrupy.Corrosive | Clear, Colourless, odourless liquid of syrupy.Corrosive |
2 | Solubility | Passes | Miscible with water, with alcohol and with ethanol (96%) |
3 | Identification (By chemical test) | Complies | The solution should strongly acidic. |
4 | Identification (Phosphate 1) | Complies | With silver nitrate solution neutral solution should yield yellow precipitate that soluble in 2N nitric acid and 6 N ammonium hydroxide. |
5 | Identification (Phosphate 2) | Complies | With ammonium molybdate solution, acidified solutions should yield a yellow precipitate that should soluble in 6N ammonium hydroxide. |
6 | Identification (Phosphate 3) | Complies | A yellow precipitate should form whose colour does not change by boiling and which dissolves on addition of ammonia. |
7 | Identification (Phosphate 4) | Complies | A yellow color should develop |
8 | Appearance of solution | Passes | Clear and colorless solution |
9 | Assay | 84.8% | 84.0% - 90.0% w/w |
10 | Limit of Nitrate | Passes | The blue color should not discharge within 1 minute. |
11 | Chloride & Sulfate: Sulfate | Passes | No precipitate should form immediately |
12 | Sulphate (SO4) | Less than 100ppm | 100ppm max |
13 | Alkali Phosphate | Passes | No turbidity should produce. |
14 | Phosphorous or Hypophosphorous acid | Passes | The mixture should not become brownish. |
15 | Relative density, 20°C | 1.7 | About 1.7 |
16 | Substance precipitated with ammonia(NH4) | Passes | Any opalescence in the solution should not be more intense than that of reference solution |
17 | Hypophosphorus acid and phosphorous acid | Passes | The solution should not show change in appearance |
18 | Chloride (Cl) | Less than 50ppm | 50ppm max |
19 | Arsenic (As) | Less than 2ppm | 2ppm max |
20 | Iron (Fe) | Less than 50ppm | 50ppm max |
21 | Specific gravity | 1.71 | About 1.71 |