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Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The diffusion of gases through metals II- Diffusion of hydrogen through aluminium' by C J Smithells and C E Ransley

Reference number: RR/56/112

Date: July 1935

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds it a shame that such important work was conducted on such impure metal.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 4 July 1935.

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RR/56/112
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July 1935
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Cecil Henry Desch, Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The diffusion of gases through metals II- Diffusion of hydrogen through aluminium' by C J Smithells and C E Ransley, July 1935, RR/56/112, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_112/referees-report-by-cecil-henry-desch-on-a-paper-the-diffusion-of-gases-through-metals-ii-diffusion-of-hydrogen-through-aluminium-by-c-j-smithells-and-c-e-ransley, accessed on 16 April 2026

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    Dates: 1832 - 1954

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