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Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The diffusion of gases through metals. III. The degassing of nickel and the diffusion of carbon monoxide through nickel' by C J Smithells and C E Ransley

Reference number: RR/56/113

Date: February 1936

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Sectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds the paper bogged down in details, but the authors may consider this necessary. Comments on the necessity of the tables.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 5 February 1936.

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RR/56/113
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February 1936
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Cecil Henry Desch, Referee's report by Cecil Henry Desch, on a paper 'The diffusion of gases through metals. III. The degassing of nickel and the diffusion of carbon monoxide through nickel' by C J Smithells and C E Ransley, February 1936, RR/56/113, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_56_113/referees-report-by-cecil-henry-desch-on-a-paper-the-diffusion-of-gases-through-metals-iii-the-degassing-of-nickel-and-the-diffusion-of-carbon-monoxide-through-nickel-by-c-j-smithells-and-c-e-ransley, accessed on 24 March 2025

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