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Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'The specific heat of aqueous solutions, with special reference to sodium and potassium chlorides' by William Robert Bousfield and C Elspeth Bousfield

Reference number: RR/24/22

Date: July 1917

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Sectional Committee: Physics and Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests shortening the theoretical part. The experimental work is 'excellent', but their interpretations are 'problematical'.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1919]

Endorsed on verso as received 25 July 1917.

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RR/24/22
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July 1917
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4 pages
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John Allen Harker, Referee's report by John Allen Harker, on a paper 'The specific heat of aqueous solutions, with special reference to sodium and potassium chlorides' by William Robert Bousfield and C Elspeth Bousfield, July 1917, RR/24/22, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_24_22/referees-report-by-john-allen-harker-on-a-paper-the-specific-heat-of-aqueous-solutions-with-special-reference-to-sodium-and-potassium-chlorides-by-william-robert-bousfield-and-c-elspeth-bousfield, accessed on 19 March 2025

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