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Referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on a paper 'The photo-degradation of polymethyl methacrylate II Evaluation of absolute rate constants for a depolymerization reaction' by P R E J Cowley and Harry Work Melville

Reference number: RR/75/221

Date: 15 September 1951

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Paper reference code: A183

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1952].

Date received not given.

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RR/75/221
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15 September 1951
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Standardised form (type E)
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Referee's report by Edmund John Bowen, on a paper 'The photo-degradation of polymethyl methacrylate II Evaluation of absolute rate constants for a depolymerization reaction' by P R E J Cowley and Harry Work Melville, 15 September 1951, RR/75/221, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_221/referees-report-by-edmund-john-bowen-on-a-paper-the-photo-degradation-of-polymethyl-methacrylate-ii-evaluation-of-absolute-rate-constants-for-a-depolymerization-reaction-by-p-r-e-j-cowley-and-harry-work-melville, accessed on 16 January 2026

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