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

Reference number: RR/22/119

Date: June 1915

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings, as the author gives little experimental detail and the entire paper needs to be revised.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 2 June 1915.

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RR/22/119
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June 1915
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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6 pages
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Manuscript

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Harold Baily Dixon

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Harold Baily Dixon, Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'The electrical ignition of gases below atmospheric pressure' by W M Thornton, June 1915, RR/22/119, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_22_119/referees-report-by-harold-baily-dixon-on-a-paper-the-electrical-ignition-of-gases-below-atmospheric-pressure-by-w-m-thornton, accessed on 15 June 2026

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