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Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The broadening of the lines in the absorption spectra of the alkaline metallic vapours' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan

Reference number: RR/43/85

Date: August 1930

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper does not deal with the subject very fully. It doesn't deserve to be described as an important contribution but it is interesting enough to warrant publication.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 12 August 1930.

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RR/43/85
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August 1930
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Thomas Ralph Merton, Referee's report by Thomas Ralph Merton, on a paper 'The broadening of the lines in the absorption spectra of the alkaline metallic vapours' by Kariamanikkam Srinivasa Krishnan, August 1930, RR/43/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_43_85/referees-report-by-thomas-ralph-merton-on-a-paper-the-broadening-of-the-lines-in-the-absorption-spectra-of-the-alkaline-metallic-vapours-by-kariamanikkam-srinivasa-krishnan, accessed on 19 March 2025

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