Fusion of a test portion with sodium carbonate/boric acid, dissolution of the melt in nitric acid, formation of the yellow (oxidized) silico-molybdic complex, reduction to the blue form and spectrophotometric measurement at 815 nm.
BS 4993-3:1974 history
0000 BS 4993-3:1974(2011)
1974BS 4993-3:1974 Methods of test for aluminium fluoride for industrial use - Determination of silica content