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Referee's report by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, on a paper 'On the thermal decomposition of acetaldehyde and ethylene oxide' by R V Seddon and Morris William Travers

Reference number: RR/56/101

Date: May 1936

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Suggests the section dealing with vinyl alcohol could form the basis of a separate communication.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

Endorsed on verso as received 7 May 1936.

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RR/56/101
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May 1936
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2 pages
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Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Referee's report by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, on a paper 'On the thermal decomposition of acetaldehyde and ethylene oxide' by R V Seddon and Morris William Travers, May 1936, RR/56/101, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_101/referees-report-by-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish-on-a-paper-on-the-thermal-decomposition-of-acetaldehyde-and-ethylene-oxide-by-r-v-seddon-and-morris-william-travers, accessed on 10 October 2024

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