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Referee's report by Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'The mechanism of isothermal distillation in the porous-disk osmometer' by A T Williamson

Reference number: RR/71/276

Date: 1948

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Recommended for publication in Proceedings. The paper is a valuable contribution, but it is written in too much detail. It could be reduced without loss of contribution and with improvement in style.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1948].

Date received not given.

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RR/71/276
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1948
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Eric Keightley Rideal, Referee's report by Eric Keightley Rideal, on a paper 'The mechanism of isothermal distillation in the porous-disk osmometer' by A T Williamson, 1948, RR/71/276, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_71_276/referees-report-by-eric-keightley-rideal-on-a-paper-the-mechanism-of-isothermal-distillation-in-the-porous-disk-osmometer-by-a-t-williamson, accessed on 22 January 2026

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