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Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'On certain mechanical properties of metals considered in relation to the periodic law' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen

Reference number: RR/10/210

Date: 19 March 1888

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Comments on anomalies in the metals examined. Refers to Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev and John Alexander Reina Newlands.

Subject: Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1888]

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RR/10/210
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19 March 1888
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Letter on paper
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8 pages
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Edward Frankland, Referee's report by Edward Frankland, on a paper 'On certain mechanical properties of metals considered in relation to the periodic law' by William Chandler Roberts-Austen, 19 March 1888, RR/10/210, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_210/referees-report-by-edward-frankland-on-a-paper-on-certain-mechanical-properties-of-metals-considered-in-relation-to-the-periodic-law-by-william-chandler-roberts-austen, accessed on 17 May 2025

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