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Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Physical properties of surfaces - III—The surface temperature of sliding metals - The temperature of lubricated surfaces' by Frank Philip Bowden and K E W Ridler

Reference number: RR/55/55

Date: December 1935

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. Section D should be omitted. The work is of the 'highest interest and importance, carried out with great experimental skill'. The description is clear and concise.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1936].

Endorsed on verso as received 23 December 1935.

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RR/55/55
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December 1935
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Neil Kensington Adam, Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Physical properties of surfaces - III—The surface temperature of sliding metals - The temperature of lubricated surfaces' by Frank Philip Bowden and K E W Ridler, December 1935, RR/55/55, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_55_55/referees-report-by-neil-kensington-adam-on-a-paper-physical-properties-of-surfaces-iiithe-surface-temperature-of-sliding-metals-the-temperature-of-lubricated-surfaces-by-frank-philip-bowden-and-k-e-w-ridler, accessed on 14 July 2025

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