In the presence of surfactant tween-80, the photometric properties of color reaction of 4,5-Dibromo-2-nitro-phenylfuorone (DBONPF) with La( Ⅲ ) were studied. Based on this fact, a new method was established for the determination of La( Ⅲ). The experimental results showed that La( Ⅲ) reacted with DBONPF to form a micelle complex with a maximum absorption at 594.0 nm in a pH 10.3 NH4Cl- NH3 buffer solution. The apparent molar absorptivity of the complex was 2.31 × 10^5 L. mol^-1 . cm^-1. Beer's law was obeyed in the range of 0-35 μg...