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Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Relation of ‘transfer-resistance’ to the molecular weight and chemical composition of electrolytes' by George Gore

Reference number: RR/9/357

Date: 18 October 1886

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Not recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The results of the experiment are not of great value and the author's accounts of them are of 'the vaguest and loosest kind'.

Subject: Chemistry

[Published in Proceedings of the Royal Society, 1885].

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RR/9/357
Earliest possible date
18 October 1886
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Report on paper
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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George Carey Foster

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George Carey Foster, Referee's report by George Carey Foster, on a paper 'Relation of ‘transfer-resistance’ to the molecular weight and chemical composition of electrolytes' by George Gore, 18 October 1886, RR/9/357, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_9_357/referees-report-by-george-carey-foster-on-a-paper-relation-of-transfer-resistance-to-the-molecular-weight-and-chemical-composition-of-electrolytes-by-george-gore, accessed on 15 October 2024

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