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Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'Photochemical reactions in the fluorite region II-Photochemical decomposition of formaldehyde vapour' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and W Albert Noyes

Reference number: RR/63/33

Date: September 1937

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings, in full. The experimental difficulties are great but the authors have made a good case for publication.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 16 September 1937.

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RR/63/33
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September 1937
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Robert Robertson, Referee's report by Robert Robertson, on a paper 'Photochemical reactions in the fluorite region II-Photochemical decomposition of formaldehyde vapour' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and W Albert Noyes, September 1937, RR/63/33, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_63_33/referees-report-by-robert-robertson-on-a-paper-photochemical-reactions-in-the-fluorite-region-ii-photochemical-decomposition-of-formaldehyde-vapour-by-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish-and-w-albert-noyes, accessed on 07 June 2026

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