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Referee's report by Henry Thomas Tizard, on a paper 'The thermal decomposition of gaseous diethyl ether at high pressures' by Dudley Maurice Newitt and M A Vernon

Reference number: RR/43/140

Date: 07 August 1931

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. They refer to Hinshelwood's paper on a similar subject, yet their analyses are very different, which they do not comment on. They should do an experiment to compare their findings to Hinshelwood's .

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1932].

Endorsed on verso as received 10 August 1931.

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Henry Thomas Tizard, Referee's report by Henry Thomas Tizard, on a paper 'The thermal decomposition of gaseous diethyl ether at high pressures' by Dudley Maurice Newitt and M A Vernon, 07 August 1931, RR/43/140, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_43_140/referees-report-by-henry-thomas-tizard-on-a-paper-the-thermal-decomposition-of-gaseous-diethyl-ether-at-high-pressures-by-dudley-maurice-newitt-and-m-a-vernon, accessed on 19 January 2025

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