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Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'A theory of the chemical action of the electric discharge in electrolytic gas' by P J Kirkby

Reference number: RR/18/159

Date: December 1910

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, with modifications.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1911].

Endorsed on verso as received 8 December 1910.

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RR/18/159
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December 1910
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Ernest Rutherford

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Ernest Rutherford, Referee's report by Ernest Rutherford, on a paper 'A theory of the chemical action of the electric discharge in electrolytic gas' by P J Kirkby, December 1910, RR/18/159, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_18_159/referees-report-by-ernest-rutherford-on-a-paper-a-theory-of-the-chemical-action-of-the-electric-discharge-in-electrolytic-gas-by-p-j-kirkby, accessed on 14 December 2024

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