Abstract
Ground samples of Nauru (N), Christmas Island A (X), Jordan (J) or North Carolina (NC) phosphate rocks (PRs) were acidulated with32P ‘spiked’ sulphuric acid to produce single superphosphate (SSP) reaction mixtures. Subsequently, single superphosphatereactive phosphate rock (SSP-RPR) mixtures were manufactured by adding reactive phosphate rock (RPR) as either ground or unground NCPR or ground JPR to SSP reaction mixtures that had been denned for either 22 or 47 minutes after acid addition. The solubility of P in the final SSP-RPR products was assessed either by extraction with water, 2% citric acid, 2% formic acid or 1M neutral ammonium citrate (NAC), or by calculation of the exchangeable P content of the fertilizer by isotopic dilution techniques. The measurement of exchangeable P allowed calculation of the amounts of acidulated P in the ex-den SSP and the amount of RPR P acidulated on addition to ex-den SSP containing free phosphoric acid.
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