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Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'Statistical mechanics of the adsorption of gases at solid surfaces' by F J Wilkins

Reference number: RR/63/130

Date: 22 October 1937

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The formula is presented without the steps necessary to justify it. He isn't happy with the assumption that virial coefficients for a gas are the same in the adsorbed and gaseous phases.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1938].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 October 1937.

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RR/63/130
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22 October 1937
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John Edward Lennard-Jones, Referee's report by John Edward Lennard-Jones, on a paper 'Statistical mechanics of the adsorption of gases at solid surfaces' by F J Wilkins, 22 October 1937, RR/63/130, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_130/referees-report-by-john-edward-lennard-jones-on-a-paper-statistical-mechanics-of-the-adsorption-of-gases-at-solid-surfaces-by-f-j-wilkins, accessed on 19 January 2025

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