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Referee's report by Wyndham Roland Dunstan, on a paper 'A study of the interaction of Mercury and Nitric Acid' by P Chandra

Reference number: RR/16/32

Date: 10 June 1903

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society' as it is quite unsuitable. The paper describes a vast amount of experimental work but without any new principle or reaction being established, and without anything being definitely proved beyond question.

Recorded in register of papers as archived.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 10 June 1903.

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RR/16/32
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10 June 1903
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2 pages
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Wyndham Rowland Dunstan, Referee's report by Wyndham Roland Dunstan, on a paper 'A study of the interaction of Mercury and Nitric Acid' by P Chandra, 10 June 1903, RR/16/32, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_32/referees-report-by-wyndham-roland-dunstan-on-a-paper-a-study-of-the-interaction-of-mercury-and-nitric-acid-by-p-chandra, accessed on 19 January 2025

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