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Referee's report by Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, on a paper 'The rate of evaporation of droplets. Evaporation and diffusion coefficients, and vapour pressures of dibutyl phthalate and butyl stearate' by R S Bradley, Meredith Gwynne Evans and Robert Whytlaw-Gray

Reference number: RR/69/43

Date: 1945

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. It is a rich contribution to the subject. Some small modifications should be made.

Contains extra question - 'Is there any information contained in the paper which likely to be of value to the enemy?' Referee replies 'not now'.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1946].

Date received not given.

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Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, Referee's report by Alfred Charles Glyn Egerton, on a paper 'The rate of evaporation of droplets. Evaporation and diffusion coefficients, and vapour pressures of dibutyl phthalate and butyl stearate' by R S Bradley, Meredith Gwynne Evans and Robert Whytlaw-Gray, 1945, RR/69/43, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_69_43/referees-report-by-alfred-charles-glyn-egerton-on-a-paper-the-rate-of-evaporation-of-droplets-evaporation-and-diffusion-coefficients-and-vapour-pressures-of-dibutyl-phthalate-and-butyl-stearate-by-r-s-bradley-meredith-gwynne-evans-and-robert-whytlaw-gray, accessed on 16 July 2025

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