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Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on a paper 'The density and compressibility of phosphine gas; the atomic weight of phosphorus' by Mowbray Ritchie

Reference number: RR/40/77

Date: March 1930

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Not recommended for publication. There is a fatal error in the experiments, which the referee believes to be his fault. The quality of the phosphorus peuloxide should be mentioned.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1930].

Endorsed on verso as received 11 March 1930.

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March 1930
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Herbert Brereton Baker, Referee's report by Herbert Brereton Baker, on a paper 'The density and compressibility of phosphine gas; the atomic weight of phosphorus' by Mowbray Ritchie, March 1930, RR/40/77, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_40_77/referees-report-by-herbert-brereton-baker-on-a-paper-the-density-and-compressibility-of-phosphine-gas-the-atomic-weight-of-phosphorus-by-mowbray-ritchie, accessed on 01 December 2024

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