Abstract
In a collaborative study, an automated method for the determination of total and direct available P2O5 was compared with the official gravimetric quinolinium molybdophosphate method, 2.023–2.025. Nine laboratories participated in the analysis of the 12 sample solutions, and the results were evaluated by the technique of closely matched pairs. The t-test showed no difference in the means of the results of the 2 methods. The estimates of the random, systematic, and total errors of the automated method all differed significantly from those of the official method when evaluated by the F-test. Further study of the automated method for P2O5 in fertilizers is not recommended.