User:Silverchemist

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PhD This user has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Chemistry.

This user is a Wikipedian in Canada.

This user comes from Newfoundland.

I live in Ontario where I work for a large multinational chemical company. I've got a PhD in organic chemistry (earned longer ago than I really care to think about). My years in academic, government and industrial labs have turned me into something of a jack-of-all-trades. My chemical interests include enhanced oil recovery, surfactants, bleaching wood pulp, lignin chemistry, organic synthesis, instrumental analysis (especially NMR), transition metal catalysis and polyurethane chemistry.

Apart from chemistry, I have interests in digital photography, military aircraft and history.

I am a firm believer in the Wikipedia project and contribute as time allows. I have written numerous articles for scientific journals and technical conferences so I try to set high standards for any contributions I make. I find it extremely irritating to be continuously reverting nonsense edits from anonymous users, especially those from shared IP addresses.

Contents 1 Articles I have started or to which I have made major contributions 1.1 History and geography 1.2 Chemistry and technology 1.3 Aviation

[edit] Articles I have started or to which I have made major contributions

[edit] History and geography

• Geography of Newfoundland and Labrador (complete rewrite)
• Fort Amherst (Newfoundland and Labrador) (new)
• Western Brook Pond Fjord (Appeared 11 March 2008, Did you know?)(Major expansion)
• Red rain in Kerala (major re-write)

[edit] Chemistry and technology

• Wood pulp (complete rewrite)
• Sulfite process (Appeared 17 October 2007, Did you know? (new)
• Bleaching of wood pulp (Appeared 26 September 2007, Did you know?) (new)
• Kraft process (complete rewrite)
• Pulp mill (complete rewrite)
• Black liquor
• Fossil fuels (major rewrite)
• Propylene oxide
• Polyols (rewrite, major additions)
• Polyurethanes
• Castor oil (complete rewrite)
• Natural oil polyols (Appeared in 6 October 2007, Did you know? (new)
• Poly(tetramethylene ether) glycol) (new)
• Diethyl ether
• Silicone oil
• Lignosulfonates (Apeared in 20 October 2007,Did you know?)(Stub expanded into full article)
• Wood-pulp paper (complete rewrite)
• Paper recycling
• Bertram Fraser-Reid (new article, my first biographic article)(Appeared in 25 November 2007, Did you know?)

[edit] Aviation

• Fastest propeller-driven aircraft (new)