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Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'The conversion of diamond into coke in high vacuum by cathode rays' by Charles Algernon Parsons and Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton

Reference number: RR/17/207

Date: 01 October 1908

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemsitry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the spectra should be enlarged if possible, or they can be omitted.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 13 January 1907.

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RR/17/207
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01 October 1908
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William Crookes, Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'The conversion of diamond into coke in high vacuum by cathode rays' by Charles Algernon Parsons and Alan Archibald Campbell Swinton, 01 October 1908, RR/17/207, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_207/referees-report-by-william-crookes-on-a-paper-the-conversion-of-diamond-into-coke-in-high-vacuum-by-cathode-rays-by-charles-algernon-parsons-and-alan-archibald-campbell-swinton, accessed on 16 September 2024

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