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Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The band spectrum of yttrium oxide (YO). With a note on the ScO and LaO Systems' by L W Johnson and R C Johnson

Reference number: RR/43/75

Date: May 1931

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The paper contains careful measurements and is a useful contribution to the subject.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1931].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 May 1931.

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RR/43/75
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May 1931
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Thomas Ralph Merton, Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The band spectrum of yttrium oxide (YO). With a note on the ScO and LaO Systems' by L W Johnson and R C Johnson, May 1931, RR/43/75, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_43_75/referees-report-by-thomas-ralph-merton-on-a-paper-the-band-spectrum-of-yttrium-oxide-yo-with-a-note-on-the-sco-and-lao-systems-by-l-w-johnson-and-r-c-johnson, accessed on 24 May 2025

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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