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Referee's report by W H J Childs, on a paper 'Investigations of infra-red spectra. Determination of C-H frequencies (~3000 cm.-1) in paraffins and olefins, with some observations on “polythenes”' by John Jacob Fox and A E Martin

Reference number: RR/67/154

Date: January 1940

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. One of the figures in the table may not be accurate. The paper is 'well written up' and sound.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Endorsed on verso as received January 1940.

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RR/67/154
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January 1940
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Standardised form (type E)
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2 pages
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Typescript

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Referee's report by W H J Childs, on a paper 'Investigations of infra-red spectra. Determination of C-H frequencies (~3000 cm.-1) in paraffins and olefins, with some observations on “polythenes”' by John Jacob Fox and A E Martin, January 1940, RR/67/154, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_154/referees-report-by-w-h-j-childs-on-a-paper-investigations-of-infra-red-spectra-determination-of-c-h-frequencies-3000-cm-1-in-paraffins-and-olefins-with-some-observations-on-polythenes-by-john-jacob-fox-and-a-e-martin, accessed on 24 March 2025

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