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SINCE various investigators have illustrated the dependence of marine plant growth on certain inorganic substances in the sea1, a knowledge of the variation and mechanism of the phosphate distribution is significant in questions of marine fertility. Dissolved phosphate investigations have taken a place along with studies of other fundamental properties of sea-water, and lately these results are also being used as identifying properties for the purpose of tracing the origin and courses of water masses in the sea.
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Seiwell, H. Phosphate in the Western Basin of the North Atlantic*. Nature 136, 206–208 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136206a0
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