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Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'The conductivity of potassium chloride solution' by Edgar Newbery

Reference number: RR/25/38

Date: 09 March 1918

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Sectional Committee: Not stated [Physics and Chemistry]

Not recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Considers the evidence is not sufficient to support the conclusions. Refers to work by Friedrich Kohlrausch, which is not referenced clearly enough in the paper.

[Not published]

Endorsed on verso as received 13 March 1918.

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RR/25/38
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09 March 1918
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2 pages
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Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, Referee's report by Samuel Walter Johnson Smith, on a paper 'The conductivity of potassium chloride solution' by Edgar Newbery, 09 March 1918, RR/25/38, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_25_38/referees-report-by-samuel-walter-johnson-smith-on-a-paper-the-conductivity-of-potassium-chloride-solution-by-edgar-newbery, accessed on 16 January 2025

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