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Paper, 'Reply to a note by Professor J E [James Emerson] Reynolds on the atomic weight of glucinum or beryllium' by T S Humpidge

Reference number: PP/3/33

Date: 1883

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Humpidge writes: 'In the above-mentioned note of Professor Reynolds [see PP/3/23] the author criticises the results detailed in a paper which I recently had the honour to contribute to the Society, and draws an inference from the specific heats of different specimens of the metal which I cannot admit to be founded on facts. Professor Reynolds remarks that all the results obtained by Nilson and myself tend in one direction, viz., to a considerable, though irregular, rise in the specific heat as the impurities diminish.'

Annotations in pencil and ink.

Subject: Chemistry

Received 7 June 1883. Read 21 June 1883. Communicated by [Edward] Frankland.

A version of this paper was published in volume 35 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'Reply to a note by Professor J. E. Reynolds on the atomic weight of glucinum or beryllium'.

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PP/3/33
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1883
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Ink and graphite pencil on paper
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5 pages
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T S Humpidge

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T S Humpidge, Paper, 'Reply to a note by Professor J E [James Emerson] Reynolds on the atomic weight of glucinum or beryllium' by T S Humpidge, 1883, PP/3/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pp_3_33/paper-reply-to-a-note-by-professor-j-e-james-emerson-reynolds-on-the-atomic-weight-of-glucinum-or-beryllium-by-t-s-humpidge, accessed on 14 May 2025

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