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Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Ignition of gases at reduced pressure by continuous current break sparks' by W M Thornton

Reference number: RR/23/100

Date: 07 April 1916

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Sectional committee: Physics and chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions or Proceedings. The referee is 'unable to understand it'. He does not believe 'the author has made any substantial case for the step-like ignitions that he claims to have established'. Believes it would 'be wise to have another opinion', as he cannot make anything out of it.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 8 April 1916.

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RR/23/100
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07 April 1916
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Harold Baily Dixon, Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Ignition of gases at reduced pressure by continuous current break sparks' by W M Thornton, 07 April 1916, RR/23/100, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_23_100/referees-report-by-harold-baily-dixon-on-a-paper-ignition-of-gases-at-reduced-pressure-by-continuous-current-break-sparks-by-w-m-thornton, accessed on 11 February 2026

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