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Referee's report by George Gerald Henderson, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at medium pressures. Part I. —Carbon monoxide air explosions in a closed vessel. Part II. —Methane-air explosions in a closed vessel' by R W Fenning

Reference number: RR/32/57

Date: September 1925

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as it is too long for Proceedings. The results of the experiments are of 'undoubted value'.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1926].

Endorsed on verso as received 24 September 1925.

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RR/32/57
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September 1925
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George Gerald Henderson, Referee's report by George Gerald Henderson, on a paper 'Gaseous combustion at medium pressures. Part I. —Carbon monoxide air explosions in a closed vessel. Part II. —Methane-air explosions in a closed vessel' by R W Fenning, September 1925, RR/32/57, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_32_57/referees-report-by-george-gerald-henderson-on-a-paper-gaseous-combustion-at-medium-pressures-part-i-carbon-monoxide-air-explosions-in-a-closed-vessel-part-ii-methane-air-explosions-in-a-closed-vessel-by-r-w-fenning, accessed on 18 June 2025

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