At sufficient temperature, potassium pyrosulfate fusion should generate enough sulfuric acid to attack molybdenite and make the field test valid for samples with this sulfide. 'Nearly total' is preferred to 'total' for actual amount of Mo extracted from rocks and soils (original paper, ibid., v. 62, no. 5, p. 732-736, 1967).

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