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Referee's report by William Mitchison Hicks on a paper 'The Laws governing electric discharges in gases at low pressures' by W R Carr

Reference number: RR/16/29

Date: April 1903

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. He had no modifications to suggests and thinks it advisable to reproduce all the illustrations. In general thinks this an excellent piece of work, extending Paschen's law for relation between spark length and pressure at constant P.D. to pressures below the critical pressure. Carr's criticism of Peace and Earbart[?] is to the point.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions A, 1903].

Endorsed on verso as received 28 April 1903.

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April 1903
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William Mitchinson Hicks, Referee's report by William Mitchison Hicks on a paper 'The Laws governing electric discharges in gases at low pressures' by W R Carr, April 1903, RR/16/29, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_29/referees-report-by-william-mitchison-hicks-on-a-paper-the-laws-governing-electric-discharges-in-gases-at-low-pressures-by-w-r-carr, accessed on 10 October 2024

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