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Second 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/61/74

Date: March 1937

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

He is not satisfied with the author's response to his query, as a quotation from Senenoff is no argument. He thinks there is 'too much interference with freedom of expression nowadays', but the author should make a reservation.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 18 March 1937.

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Second 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/61/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_61_74/second-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 22 January 2025

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