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Referee's report by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, on a paper 'The combustion of aromatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons I—The slow combustion of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, n-propylbenzene, n-butylbenzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, p-xylene and mesitylene' by J H Burgoyne

Reference number: RR/61/73

Date: March 1937

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. He wonders how the equation given by the author can be applicable to a process that he believes happens in several stages.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1937].

Endorsed on verso as received 4 March 1937.

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RR/61/73
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March 1937
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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Referee's report by Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, on a paper 'The combustion of aromatic and alicyclic hydrocarbons I—The slow combustion of benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, n-propylbenzene, n-butylbenzene, o-xylene, m-xylene, p-xylene and mesitylene' by J H Burgoyne, March 1937, RR/61/73, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_73/referees-report-by-cyril-norman-hinshelwood-on-a-paper-the-combustion-of-aromatic-and-alicyclic-hydrocarbons-ithe-slow-combustion-of-benzene-toluene-ethylbenzene-n-propylbenzene-n-butylbenzene-o-xylene-m-xylene-p-xylene-and-mesitylene-by-j-h-burgoyne, accessed on 08 February 2025

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