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Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The ignition of gases by impulsive electrical discharge' by W M Thornton

Reference number: RR/22/118

Date: December 1915

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. It is the most valuable of all the author's papers on this subject.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1914].

Endorsed on verso as received 17 December 1915.

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RR/22/118
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December 1915
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2 pages
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Harold Baily Dixon, Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The ignition of gases by impulsive electrical discharge' by W M Thornton, December 1915, RR/22/118, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_22_118/referees-report-by-harold-baily-dixon-on-a-paper-the-ignition-of-gases-by-impulsive-electrical-discharge-by-w-m-thornton, accessed on 19 July 2025

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