The application relates to the technical field of chemical analysis, in particular to a spectrophotometric determination method for phosphates in
phosphorous acid, which comprises the following steps: adding a
reducing agent to a sample to be measured to start a
color reaction, synchronously triggering and performing double-
wavelength high-frequency sampling, obtaining color
light absorbance and
background light absorbance at each moment during the whole determination process after the reaction is started; performing
smoothing processing on the color
light absorbance, evaluating the change degree of the smoothed color
light absorbance with time to represent the
time sequence characteristics of the change of the
reaction rate, obtaining the
relative change rate at each moment, and identifying the observation end moment when the main
color reaction ends and the matrix interference drift starts; determining the interference drift rate, combining the reaction time, and determining the cumulative interference
absorbance representing the matrix interference drift; obtaining the net
absorbance, and determining the
phosphate content in the sample to be measured. The application significantly improves the accuracy of the determination of trace phosphates in
phosphorous acid.