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Referee's report by Dudley Maurice Newitt, on a paper 'Spectroscopic studies of the hydrogen-oxygen explosion initiated by the flash photolysis of nitrogen-dioxide' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter

Reference number: RR/75/187

Date: 27 August 1951

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Paper reference code: A158

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings with Newitt's suggestion regarding figure 1 and pages 14 and 15.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1952].

Date received not given.

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RR/75/187
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27 August 1951
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Dudley Maurice Newitt, Referee's report by Dudley Maurice Newitt, on a paper 'Spectroscopic studies of the hydrogen-oxygen explosion initiated by the flash photolysis of nitrogen-dioxide' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter, 27 August 1951, RR/75/187, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_187/referees-report-by-dudley-maurice-newitt-on-a-paper-spectroscopic-studies-of-the-hydrogen-oxygen-explosion-initiated-by-the-flash-photolysis-of-nitrogen-dioxide-by-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish-and-george-porter, accessed on 09 August 2026

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