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Referee's report by John Desmond Bernal, on a paper 'Melting and crystal structure. The onset of 'rotation' on melting' by A A K Al-Mahdi and Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde

Reference number: RR/79/138

Date: 14 July 1953

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Sectional committee: Physics

Paper reference code: A128

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Remarks on the usefulness of the paper, the case made against 'complete rotations', and his scepticism on the 'entropy change'.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

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John Desmond Bernal, Referee's report by John Desmond Bernal, on a paper 'Melting and crystal structure. The onset of 'rotation' on melting' by A A K Al-Mahdi and Alfred Rene Jean Paul Ubbelohde, 14 July 1953, RR/79/138, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_79_138/referees-report-by-john-desmond-bernal-on-a-paper-melting-and-crystal-structure-the-onset-of-rotation-on-melting-by-a-a-k-al-mahdi-and-alfred-rene-jean-paul-ubbelohde, accessed on 16 January 2025

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