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Sectional committee: [Chemistry]

Egerton will have assumed his acquiescence with regards to the papers [opinion unknown] and McBain will have already been cabled. This letter is a note for his records.

[Both papers published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1940].

Date received not given.

Reference number
RR/67/17
Earliest possible date
14 August 1940
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Letter on paper
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2 pages
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Typescript

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David Randall Pye

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David Randall Pye, Letter from David Randall Pye, on two papers 'On the mechanism of boundary lubrication. I. The action of long-chain polar compounds' by Otto Beeck, J W Givens and A E Smith and 'On the mechanism of boundary lubrication. II. Wear prevention by addition agents' by Otto Beeck, J W Givens and E C Williams to Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, 14 August 1940, RR/67/17, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_67_17/letter-from-david-randall-pye-on-two-papers-on-the-mechanism-of-boundary-lubrication-i-the-action-of-long-chain-polar-compounds-by-otto-beeck-j-w-givens-and-a-e-smith-and-on-the-mechanism-of-boundary-lubrication-ii-wear-prevention-by-addition-agents-by-otto-beeck-j-w-givens-and-e-c-williams-to-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton, accessed on 08 November 2024

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