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Referee's report by Edmund Alexander Parkes, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' by August Dupre

Reference number: RR/7/170

Date: 24 February 1872

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Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions, as 'great pains have been taken with the quantitative determination and the results seem to me of very considerable importance'.

Subject: Astronomy

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1872].

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RR/7/170
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24 February 1872
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Edmund Alexander Parkes

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Edmund Alexander Parkes, Referee's report by Edmund Alexander Parkes, on a paper 'On the specific heat and other physical characters of mixtures of methylic alcohol and water, and on certain relations existing between the specific heat of a mixture or solution and the heat evolved or absorbed in their formation' by August Dupre, 24 February 1872, RR/7/170, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_170/referees-report-by-edmund-alexander-parkes-on-a-paper-on-the-specific-heat-and-other-physical-characters-of-mixtures-of-methylic-alcohol-and-water-and-on-certain-relations-existing-between-the-specific-heat-of-a-mixture-or-solution-and-the-heat-evolved-or-absorbed-in-their-formation-by-august-dupre, accessed on 13 February 2025

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