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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The paper is long and elaborate but it can't be shortened without detriment. One of the paragraphs could be shortened.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 20 September 1938.

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RR/65/85
Earliest possible date
September 1938
Physical description
Standardised form (type E)
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript
Typescript

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Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton

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Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, Referee's report by Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, on a paper 'The specific heat of gases at high temperatures' by R W Fenning and A C Whiffin, September 1938, RR/65/85, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_85/referees-report-by-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton-on-a-paper-the-specific-heat-of-gases-at-high-temperatures-by-r-w-fenning-and-a-c-whiffin, accessed on 11 July 2025

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