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Referee's report by Robert Whytlaw-Gray, on a paper 'The experimental determination of the compressibilty of gases' by R W Fenning and A C Whiffen

Reference number: RR/65/87

Date: January 1939

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Sectional committee: Physics

Not recommended for publication. The results of the experiment are not of general scientific intetrest or significance. If further results were obtained, it would be more valuable.

[Not published].

Endorsed on verso as received 9 January 1939.

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RR/65/87
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January 1939
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Robert Whytlaw-Gray, Referee's report by Robert Whytlaw-Gray, on a paper 'The experimental determination of the compressibilty of gases' by R W Fenning and A C Whiffen, January 1939, RR/65/87, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_87/referees-report-by-robert-whytlaw-gray-on-a-paper-the-experimental-determination-of-the-compressibilty-of-gases-by-r-w-fenning-and-a-c-whiffen, accessed on 18 April 2025

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