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Letter from Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, on a paper 'The mechanism and kinetics of the heterogeneous polymerization of vinyl monomers I. The benzoyl peroxide catalyzed polymerization of vinyl chloride' by W I Bengough and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish to Graddon

Reference number: RR/72/26

Date: 01 September 1949

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He will not press for any further action on the paper although he will not withdraw his comment on it. The authors are unwilling to accept his suggestions.

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 1950].

Endorsed on recto as received 3 September 1949.

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RR/72/26
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01 September 1949
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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood

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Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, Letter from Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, on a paper 'The mechanism and kinetics of the heterogeneous polymerization of vinyl monomers I. The benzoyl peroxide catalyzed polymerization of vinyl chloride' by W I Bengough and Ronald George Wreyford Norrish to Graddon, 01 September 1949, RR/72/26, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_72_26/letter-from-cyril-norman-hinshelwood-on-a-paper-the-mechanism-and-kinetics-of-the-heterogeneous-polymerization-of-vinyl-monomers-i-the-benzoyl-peroxide-catalyzed-polymerization-of-vinyl-chloride-by-w-i-bengough-and-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish-to-graddon, accessed on 18 March 2025

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