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Referee's report by Astley Cooper Key, on a paper 'Researches on explosives - Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel

Reference number: RR/7/333

Date: 30 July 1874

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Recommended for publication in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. The paper is 'of much interest'.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Philosophical Transactions, 1875].

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RR/7/333
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30 July 1874
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Letter on paper
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Astley Cooper Key

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Astley Cooper Key, Referee's report by Astley Cooper Key, on a paper 'Researches on explosives - Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel, 30 July 1874, RR/7/333, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_7_333/referees-report-by-astley-cooper-key-on-a-paper-researches-on-explosives-fired-gunpowder-by-andrew-noble-and-frederick-augustus-abel, accessed on 24 March 2025

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