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Referee's report by Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'The mechanism of chain breaking in the thermal decomposition of ethane' by Cyril Norman Hishelwood and J E Hobbs

Reference number: RR/65/128

Date: May 1938

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper is condensed as it can be.

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

Endorsed on verso as received 13 May 1938.

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RR/65/128
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May 1938
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Eric Keightley Rideal, Referee's report by Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'The mechanism of chain breaking in the thermal decomposition of ethane' by Cyril Norman Hishelwood and J E Hobbs, May 1938, RR/65/128, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_128/referees-report-by-eric-keightley-rideal-on-a-paper-the-mechanism-of-chain-breaking-in-the-thermal-decomposition-of-ethane-by-cyril-norman-hishelwood-and-j-e-hobbs, accessed on 12 December 2025

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