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Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'On the velocity of sound in gases and vapours, and the ratio of the specific heats' by Harold Baily Dixon and Gilbert Greenwood

Reference number: RR/28/123

Date: December 1923

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, if reduced in length. The experimental descriptions are trustworthy, but the molecular calcualtions use an approximate equation of doubtful accuracy.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1924]

Endorsed on verso as received 18 December 1923.

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RR/28/123
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December 1923
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Charles Herbert Lees, Referee's report by Charles Herbert Lees, on a paper 'On the velocity of sound in gases and vapours, and the ratio of the specific heats' by Harold Baily Dixon and Gilbert Greenwood, December 1923, RR/28/123, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_123/referees-report-by-charles-herbert-lees-on-a-paper-on-the-velocity-of-sound-in-gases-and-vapours-and-the-ratio-of-the-specific-heats-by-harold-baily-dixon-and-gilbert-greenwood, accessed on 18 March 2025

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