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Referee's report by James Walker, on two papers 'The photo-chemistry of potassium permanganate. Part I.—Application of the potentiometer to the study of photo-chemical change' and 'The photo-chemistry of potassium permanganate.-Part II. On the energetics of the photo-decomposition of potassium permanganate' by Eric Keightley Rideal and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish

Reference number: RR/28/8

Date: August 1922

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Suggests omitting the descriptions of analytical chemical methods, as these are well-known.

[Both paper published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1923]

Endorsed on verso as received 16 August 1922.

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RR/28/8
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August 1922
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James Walker, Referee's report by James Walker, on two papers 'The photo-chemistry of potassium permanganate. Part I.—Application of the potentiometer to the study of photo-chemical change' and 'The photo-chemistry of potassium permanganate.-Part II. On the energetics of the photo-decomposition of potassium permanganate' by Eric Keightley Rideal and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, August 1922, RR/28/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_28_8/referees-report-by-james-walker-on-two-papers-the-photo-chemistry-of-potassium-permanganate-part-iapplication-of-the-potentiometer-to-the-study-of-photo-chemical-change-and-the-photo-chemistry-of-potassium-permanganate-part-ii-on-the-energetics-of-the-photo-decomposition-of-potassium-permanganate-by-eric-keightley-rideal-and-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish, accessed on 03 October 2024

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