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Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'The decomposition of ozone by heat' by Edgar Philip Perman and Richard Henry Greaves

Reference number: RR/17/211

Date: February 1908

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

No clear statement regarding publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Considers the experiment unsatisfactory, but the conclusions justified.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 5 February 1908.

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RR/17/211
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February 1908
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2 pages
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James Walker, Referee's report by James Walker, on a paper 'The decomposition of ozone by heat' by Edgar Philip Perman and Richard Henry Greaves, February 1908, RR/17/211, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_211/referees-report-by-james-walker-on-a-paper-the-decomposition-of-ozone-by-heat-by-edgar-philip-perman-and-richard-henry-greaves, accessed on 17 March 2025

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