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  CATALOGUE 
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  Now 
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  By 
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  Contents 
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  PROCEEDINGS, 
  No. 
  A 
  690. 
  November, 
  1920. 
  

  

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  Page 
  

  

  THE 
  ABSORPTION 
  OF 
  LIGHT 
  BY 
  ELEMENTS 
  IN 
  THE 
  STATE 
  OF 
  

  

  VAPOUR: 
  SELENIUM 
  AND 
  TELLURIUM; 
  MERCURY, 
  ZINC, 
  CADMIUM 
  ; 
  PHOSPHORUS, 
  

   ARSENIC, 
  ANTIMONY. 
  By 
  Sir 
  J. 
  J. 
  Dorbie, 
  F.R.S., 
  and 
  J. 
  J. 
  Fox, 
  O.B.E., 
  D.Sc. 
  (Plates 
  3-5) 
  .. 
  147 
  

  

  PHOTOCHEMICAL 
  INVESTIGATIONS 
  OF 
  THE 
  PHOTOGRAPHIC 
  PLATE. 
  

  

  By 
  R. 
  E. 
  Slade, 
  D.Sc. 
  F.I.C., 
  and 
  G. 
  I. 
  Higso.n, 
  M.Sc, 
  A.I.C. 
  (Plate 
  6) 
  154 
  

  

  DILATATION 
  AND 
  COMPRESSIBILITY 
  OF 
  LIQUID 
  CARBONIC 
  ACID. 
  

  

  By 
  C 
  F. 
  Jenkin, 
  C.B.E., 
  M.Inst.C.E 
  170 
  

  

  RADIATION 
  IN 
  EXPLOSIONS 
  OF 
  HYDROGEN 
  AND 
  AIR. 
  By 
  W. 
  T. 
  David, 
  

  

  M.A., 
  D.Sc 
  .. 
  ..183 
  

  

  THE 
  AERODYNAMICS 
  OF 
  A 
  SPINNING 
  SHELL. 
  By 
  R. 
  H. 
  Fowler, 
  

  

  E. 
  G. 
  Gallop, 
  C. 
  N. 
  H. 
  Lock, 
  and 
  H. 
  W. 
  Richmond, 
  F.R.S. 
  (Abstract) 
  199 
  

  

  ON 
  THE 
  VIBRATIONS 
  OF 
  AN 
  ELASTIC 
  PLATE 
  IN 
  CONTACT 
  WITH 
  

  

  WATER. 
  By 
  Horace 
  Lamb, 
  F.R.S 
  205 
  

  

  Published 
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