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Referee's report by Astley Cooper Key, on a paper 'Researches on explosives. No. II.—Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel

Reference number: RR/8/177

Date: 14 October 1879

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Recommended for publication in the 'Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society'. Does not have enough knowledge of mathematics to comment on that section of the paper.

Subject: Mathematics, Applied Sciences, Physics and Chemistry

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1880]

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RR/8/177
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14 October 1879
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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. No. II.—Fired gunpowder' by Andrew Noble and Frederick Augustus Abel, 14 October 1879, RR/8/177, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_8_177/referees-report-by-astley-cooper-key-on-a-paper-researches-on-explosives-no-iifired-gunpowder-by-andrew-noble-and-frederick-augustus-abel, accessed on 03 December 2024

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