Referee's report by William Edward Garner, on a paper 'The sensitiveness of explosives - The onset of detonation in the sensitiveness of explosives' by Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde, J L Copp, S E Napier, T Nash, W J Powell, H Skelly and P Woodward
Reference number: RR/69/314
Date: 22 December 1946
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Sectional committee: Chemistry
Recommended for publication. The paper contains valuable data on the subject but they are not easy to understand. There is much repetition of the argument and method. The paper may not be appropriate for publication in Proceedings, due to it's arrangement. It should be rearranged. The paper isn't suitable for publication until it is modified.
[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1948].
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- 22 December 1946
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William Edward Garner, Referee's report by William Edward Garner, on a paper 'The sensitiveness of explosives - The onset of detonation in the sensitiveness of explosives' by Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde, J L Copp, S E Napier, T Nash, W J Powell, H Skelly and P Woodward, 22 December 1946, RR/69/314, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_314/referees-report-by-william-edward-garner-on-a-paper-the-sensitiveness-of-explosives-the-onset-of-detonation-in-the-sensitiveness-of-explosives-by-alfred-rene-jean-paul-ubbelohde-j-l-copp-s-e-napier-t-nash-w-j-powell-h-skelly-and-p-woodward, accessed on 17 March 2026
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Referees' reports: volume 69, peer reviews of scientific papers submitted to the Royal Society for publication
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