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Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'The kinetics of the thermal decomposition of normal paraffin hydrocarbons IV Modes of rupture of the carbon chain' by Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Keith Usherwood Ingold and F J Stubbs

Reference number: RR/75/97

Date: 28 April 1951

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Paper reference code: A83

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1951].

Date received not given.

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RR/75/97
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28 April 1951
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Edward David Hughes, Referee's report by Edward David Hughes, on a paper 'The kinetics of the thermal decomposition of normal paraffin hydrocarbons IV Modes of rupture of the carbon chain' by Sir Cyril Hinshelwood, Keith Usherwood Ingold and F J Stubbs, 28 April 1951, RR/75/97, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_75_97/referees-report-by-edward-david-hughes-on-a-paper-the-kinetics-of-the-thermal-decomposition-of-normal-paraffin-hydrocarbons-iv-modes-of-rupture-of-the-carbon-chain-by-sir-cyril-hinshelwood-keith-usherwood-ingold-and-f-j-stubbs, accessed on 13 December 2025

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