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Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'Preliminary note on certain phenomen of the electric discharge through rarified nitrogen' by George James Burch

Reference number: RR/17/257

Date: January 1908

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, with slight modifications.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 13 January 1908.

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RR/17/257
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January 1908
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William Crookes, Referee's report by William Crookes, on a paper 'Preliminary note on certain phenomen of the electric discharge through rarified nitrogen' by George James Burch, January 1908, RR/17/257, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_17_257/referees-report-by-william-crookes-on-a-paper-preliminary-note-on-certain-phenomen-of-the-electric-discharge-through-rarified-nitrogen-by-george-james-burch, accessed on 12 May 2026

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