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Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Surface energy relations in liquid/solid systems I. The adhesion of liquids to solids and a new method of determining the surface tension of liquids' by G Macdougall and C Ockrent

Reference number: RR/68/103

Date: 13 September 1941

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Sectional Committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. Finds the revisions satisfactory.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies no.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London']

No received date.

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RR/68/103
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13 September 1941
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Standardised form (type E)
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Neil Kensington Adam, Referee's report by Neil Kensington Adam, on a paper 'Surface energy relations in liquid/solid systems I. The adhesion of liquids to solids and a new method of determining the surface tension of liquids' by G Macdougall and C Ockrent, 13 September 1941, RR/68/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_68_103/referees-report-by-neil-kensington-adam-on-a-paper-surface-energy-relations-in-liquidsolid-systems-i-the-adhesion-of-liquids-to-solids-and-a-new-method-of-determining-the-surface-tension-of-liquids-by-g-macdougall-and-c-ockrent, accessed on 08 February 2025

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