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Referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on a paper 'On the thermal decomposition of acetaldehyde and ethylene oxide' by R V Seddon and Morris William Travers

Reference number: RR/56/104

Date: November 1935

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Not recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The experimental method is lengthy and as such has not been repeated. Refers to work of Cyril Norman Hinshelwood. Finds the conclusions not to be based on enough sound evidence.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 22 November 1935.

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November 1935
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Edmund John Bowen, Referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on a paper 'On the thermal decomposition of acetaldehyde and ethylene oxide' by R V Seddon and Morris William Travers, November 1935, RR/56/104, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_104/referees-report-by-edmund-john-bowen-on-a-paper-on-the-thermal-decomposition-of-acetaldehyde-and-ethylene-oxide-by-r-v-seddon-and-morris-william-travers, accessed on 15 January 2025

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