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Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The analysis of gases after passage of electric discharge' by Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton

Reference number: RR/21/62

Date: 1914

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Considers the paper badly arranged. The experiments are novel. Suggests the paper be revised by a more skilled author.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London', 1915]

No received date.

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RR/21/62
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1914
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Standardised form (type C)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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John William Strutt

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John William Strutt, Referee's report by John William Strutt, Lord Rayleigh, on a paper 'The analysis of gases after passage of electric discharge' by Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, 1914, RR/21/62, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_21_62/referees-report-by-john-william-strutt-lord-rayleigh-on-a-paper-the-analysis-of-gases-after-passage-of-electric-discharge-by-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton, accessed on 08 February 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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