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Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'The influence of chemical constitution upon interfacial tension' by William Bate Hardy

Reference number: RR/19/60

Date: December 1912

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests reducing the paper by omitting or reducing the the theoretical discussion. Considers the experimental part to show 'ignorance of previous work on the measurement of interfacial tension'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1913]

Endorsed on verso as received 3 December 1912.

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RR/19/60
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December 1912
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2 pages
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Frederick George Donnan

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Frederick George Donnan, Referee's report by Frederick George Donnan, on a paper 'The influence of chemical constitution upon interfacial tension' by William Bate Hardy, December 1912, RR/19/60, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_19_60/referees-report-by-frederick-george-donnan-on-a-paper-the-influence-of-chemical-constitution-upon-interfacial-tension-by-william-bate-hardy, accessed on 20 September 2024

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