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Referee's report by Meredith Gwynne Evans, on a paper 'Studies of the explosive combustion of hydrocarbons by kinetic spectroscopy. I. Free radical absorption spectra in acetylene combustion' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter and Brian Arthur Thrush

Reference number: RR/77/169

Date: 23 September 1952

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Paper reference code: A149

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/77/169
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Meredith Gwynne Evans, Referee's report by Meredith Gwynne Evans, on a paper 'Studies of the explosive combustion of hydrocarbons by kinetic spectroscopy. I. Free radical absorption spectra in acetylene combustion' by Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, George Porter and Brian Arthur Thrush, 23 September 1952, RR/77/169, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_77_169/referees-report-by-meredith-gwynne-evans-on-a-paper-studies-of-the-explosive-combustion-of-hydrocarbons-by-kinetic-spectroscopy-i-free-radical-absorption-spectra-in-acetylene-combustion-by-ronald-george-wreyford-norrish-george-porter-and-brian-arthur-thrush, accessed on 17 August 2026

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