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Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part IV.—The influence of varying initial pressures upon the rate of pressure development and the activation of nitrogen in carbon monoxide-air explosions' by William Arthur Bone, Dudley Maurice Newitt and D T A Townend

Reference number: RR/30/12

Date: 11 February 1924

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests reducing the length of the paper by omitting some sections.

Enclosed letter to Dudley Maurice Newitt, from the Assistant Secretary, dated 6 February 1924, states that the paper is still under consideration, and cannot yet go to the printers, but his request will be considered.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 12 February 1924.

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RR/30/12
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Harold Baily Dixon, Referee's report by Harold Baily Dixon, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at high pressures. Part IV.—The influence of varying initial pressures upon the rate of pressure development and the activation of nitrogen in carbon monoxide-air explosions' by William Arthur Bone, Dudley Maurice Newitt and D T A Townend, 11 February 1924, RR/30/12, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_30_12/referees-report-by-harold-baily-dixon-on-a-paper-gaseous-combustion-at-high-pressures-part-ivthe-influence-of-varying-initial-pressures-upon-the-rate-of-pressure-development-and-the-activation-of-nitrogen-in-carbon-monoxide-air-explosions-by-william-arthur-bone-dudley-maurice-newitt-and-d-t-a-townend, accessed on 13 June 2026

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