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Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'A method of depositing copper upon glass from aqueous solutions in a thin brilliantly reflecting film, and thus producing a copper mirror' by Frederick Daniel Chattaway

Reference number: RR/17/144

Date: November 1907

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 2 November 1907.

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RR/17/144
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November 1907
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2 pages
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William Crookes, Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'A method of depositing copper upon glass from aqueous solutions in a thin brilliantly reflecting film, and thus producing a copper mirror' by Frederick Daniel Chattaway, November 1907, RR/17/144, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_144/referees-report-by-william-crookes-on-a-paper-a-method-of-depositing-copper-upon-glass-from-aqueous-solutions-in-a-thin-brilliantly-reflecting-film-and-thus-producing-a-copper-mirror-by-frederick-daniel-chattaway, accessed on 22 March 2025

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