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Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'The role of diffucion in the catalysis of hydrogen peroxide by colloidal platinum' by George Senter

Reference number: RR/16/378

Date: 16 March 1905

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Sectional Committee: not stated.

He has written to Sand asking if he would wish to say anything if Senter's paper were published and Sand replied that he would not. Encloses Sand's letter [not attached] from which he can see Sand has extracted some meaning from the paper, and has thus been more successful than Poynting himself. Poynting thinks it a 'most woolly' production but as it contains a new point, according to Sand, Poynting supposes it ought to be published.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1904].

Endorsed on recto as received 17 March 1905.

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RR/16/378
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16 March 1905
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John Henry Poynting, Referee's report by John Henry Poynting, on a paper 'The role of diffucion in the catalysis of hydrogen peroxide by colloidal platinum' by George Senter, 16 March 1905, RR/16/378, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_16_378/referees-report-by-john-henry-poynting-on-a-paper-the-role-of-diffucion-in-the-catalysis-of-hydrogen-peroxide-by-colloidal-platinum-by-george-senter, accessed on 18 April 2025

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