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Referee's report by James Charles Philip, on a paper 'The influence of hydrogen ion concentration on the adsorption of weak electrolytes by pure charcoals' by Harold John Phelps and Rudolph Albert Peters

Reference number: RR/40/37

Date: March 1929

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in Proceedings, in it's present form. The paper is unconvincing and the results are less decisive than the authors think. The evidence it provides does not warrant the conclusions drawn from it.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1929].

Endorsed on verso as received 12 March 1929.

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RR/40/37
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March 1929
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Standardised form (type D) and note on paper
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3 pages
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James Charles Philip, Referee's report by James Charles Philip, on a paper 'The influence of hydrogen ion concentration on the adsorption of weak electrolytes by pure charcoals' by Harold John Phelps and Rudolph Albert Peters, March 1929, RR/40/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_37/referees-report-by-james-charles-philip-on-a-paper-the-influence-of-hydrogen-ion-concentration-on-the-adsorption-of-weak-electrolytes-by-pure-charcoals-by-harold-john-phelps-and-rudolph-albert-peters, accessed on 21 January 2025

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