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Referee's report by John Desmond Bernal, on a paper 'Melting and crystal structure. The mechanism of melting of group I nitrates' by W J Davis, S E Rogers and Alfred Rene Jean Ubbelohde

Reference number: RR/79/99

Date: 28 May 1953

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Sectional committee: Chemistry

Paper reference code: A91

Recommended for publication in the Proceedings. Bernal comments the 'paper brings out the very interesting point of the lower entropy of melting of nitrates as compared with chlorides', however there is 'difficult to see any chemical basis for this', and includes a table.

[Published in Proceedings A, 1953].

Date received not given.

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RR/79/99
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28 May 1953
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2 pages
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John Desmond Bernal, Referee's report by John Desmond Bernal, on a paper 'Melting and crystal structure. The mechanism of melting of group I nitrates' by W J Davis, S E Rogers and Alfred Rene Jean Ubbelohde, 28 May 1953, RR/79/99, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_79_99/referees-report-by-john-desmond-bernal-on-a-paper-melting-and-crystal-structure-the-mechanism-of-melting-of-group-i-nitrates-by-w-j-davis-s-e-rogers-and-alfred-rene-jean-ubbelohde, accessed on 16 January 2025

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