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Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The freezing points, melting points, and solid solubility limits of the alloys of silver and copper with the elements of the b sub-groups' by William Hume-Rothery, Gilbert W Mabbott and K M Channel Evans

Reference number: RR/48/39

Date: May 1933

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Sectional Committee: Engineering Sciences

Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Finds the paper lengthy and contains much repetition and could be shortened without loss. Makes suggestions for omissions and abbreviations.

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 1934]

Endorsed on verso as received 18 May 1933.

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RR/48/39
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May 1933
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2 pages
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Cecil Henry Desch, Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The freezing points, melting points, and solid solubility limits of the alloys of silver and copper with the elements of the b sub-groups' by William Hume-Rothery, Gilbert W Mabbott and K M Channel Evans, May 1933, RR/48/39, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_48_39/referees-report-by-cecil-henry-desch-on-a-paper-the-freezing-points-melting-points-and-solid-solubility-limits-of-the-alloys-of-silver-and-copper-with-the-elements-of-the-b-sub-groups-by-william-hume-rothery-gilbert-w-mabbott-and-k-m-channel-evans, accessed on 10 February 2025

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