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[edit] Hallo

Hello Stone, welcome to Wikipedia! I hope you have a lot of fun here. There are lots of resources around to help guide you. be sure to check out:

If you want add any images check out:

If you need any help try:

Don't be afraid of making the odd mistake, there are any number of others eagerly waiting for a chance to correct it!

Theresa knott 11:57 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)

[edit] re: 2-pyridone

[edit] Sub-pages

Did you know that you can create Wikipedia:Subpages off your userpage? This would enable you to construct complicated pages like 2-pyridone in isolation rather than as part of your own userpage. HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:54, 26 January 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and BTW, are you aware of WikiProject Chemistry and its sub-projects? You give the impression of someone who would be well-suited to help out there...HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 17:57, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Thanks I will try to help with WikiProject Chemistry Stone 10:22, 27 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Request for edit summary

Hi. I am a bot, and I am writing to you with a request. I would like to ask you, if possible, to use edit summaries a bit more often when you contribute. The reason an edit summary is important is because it allows your fellow contributors to understand what you changed; you can think of it as the "Subject:" line in an email. For your information, your current edit summary usage is 47% for major edits and 33% for minor edits. (Based on the last 106 major and 150 minor edits in the article namespace.)

This is just a suggestion, and I hope that I did not appear impolite. You do not need to reply to this message, but if you would like to give me feedback, you can do so at the feedback page. Thank you, and happy edits, Mathbot 12:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CS gas

Many thanks for the review - I've added some data from an american army webpage - so I'm assuming it's PD and therefore usable directly. It's been a while since I studied chemistry so I think I'd have to leave a more detailed picture so someone with more experience. I appreciate the time you took to have a look and make a suggestion. Kind regards SeanMack 17:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heptanol

If you prefer your structure image for heptanol, feel free to replace mine with it. I won't mind. I like the images you are creating. Keep up the good work. Edgar181 15:46, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Potassium benzoate

Thanks for your help and your message. Glad someone knows more about anaerobic fermentation then I do. :o) EWS23 | (Leave me a message!) 22:18, 2 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Leibniz prize

Thank you for your work on the Leibniz prize winners! I will list some of them at the Germany portal's new article section, if you don't mind. (If you don't want to see your name there, please remove the articles). Also, I would like to invite you to the German-speaking noticeboard and its talk page, a place where lots of German-speaking Wikipedians hang out and you can get translation suggestions and other help. Hope to see you there, happy editing und viele Grüße, Kusma (討論) 04:32, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

Oops, I forgot that we recently made the rule not to list stubs, so I can't list these articles until they are no longer stubs :-( Anyway, I still hope you check out the Portal page and the noticeboard. Kusma (討論) 04:35, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia :Scientific peer review

Thanks but I think I will pitch in only if there aren't enough Ph.D. folks with academic tenures out there (who can actually add weight to Wikipedia's reliability). Besides I don't think I have any science articles that stand out although I notice now that I started Amotz Zahavi, Chemical database, contributed to Prion, Ernst Mayr and a bit to species started W. D. Hamilton as an anonymous edit and have been working mostly on Fauna_and_flora_of_India and related links at the moment. I was pleasantly surprised that three articles that I touched were in the Nature review list Shyamal 07:57, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Greetings from the imaginary chemist. I'll reply to your message on my talk page, when it is clearer how much the value of WP articles is for Board membership and how much the ability to get the science right is. As you have probably seen, I favour the latter and you favour the former. Depending how the debate goes, I may continue to nominate for the Board or I may just nominate to be a reviewer. Right now, I think it is more important to get consensus on rather a large number of matters. The nature of the Board is just one. There is scope of the project (just Natural Science or wider? what is natural science? etc). How big is the Board? Do we need a Charter? There will probably be others. --Bduke 22:53, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

I think we need both on the board, an because of this reason I asked! The other matters which have to be sorted out, I will try to help were I can help! --Stone 22:58, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

For me it is OK when we stick to Natural Science but if there is enough people coming around asking for more I have no problem to incorporate them during the project. And for the beginning I always prefere not to make too nearrow boarders for the project, because wikipedia has room for nearly everything I hope! --Stone 00:20, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

I have responded to your question on my talk page in probably greater detail than necessary. --Bduke 22:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for your message

Thanks for your message on my talk. I've replied on Scientific peer review talk, and I'm happy for my nomination to stay.

Best wishes,

Samsara (talk • contribs) 10:15, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uranium Trioxide gas

Thanks for your support Stone, it's been a big help to bringing some sence and order to this topic. --DV8 2XL 20:00, 14 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heretic Question

The area where Kopernik was born, lived and died was a part of Poland at the time, so your analogy is kinda weak. Space Cadet 12:25, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rechtschreibung

Du sollst User:Stone/Flouride nach User:Stone/Fluoride verschieben! Wir tun was wir koennen ueber Urangas... Physchim62 (talk) 12:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uranium trioxide

Fancy pitching in there and reviewing the latest edits? 129.215.195.81 19:47, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

The article could to with a dose of sanity and a revert. 82.41.26.244 00:49, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] s/en-3/en-2/

The English writing skill shown in your recent edits to Uranium trioxide are not at the en-3 level. --James S. 10:19, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gas in the Uranium article???!!!!!!!???!!??!?!!!?!!?!!!

Look who filled in all the detail!!!!! --James S. 14:13, 5 April 2006 (UTC) !!!

[edit] Thanks

Thanks for you comments on UO3. I will try more cleanup as time permits, although I may be busy this week. I had to laugh about your comments on the insignificance of UO3--what a compound to be in an edit war about! Olin 13:18, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Boron trichloride in WP:Chem worklist

Hi, Harald, what made you add the boron trichloride article to the worklist under the Out of Scope section? I was considering to completely do away with this whole section, to focus all attention to the chosen articles in the worklist proper. I do see some activity every now and then in this out-of-scope list, and your explicit addition triggered me to step up from merely wondering to actually asking. Wim van Dorst (Talk) 12:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC).

[edit] UO3 (again!)

Hello, can you cross-check if the Selbu paper says there is UO3 formed during combustion of uranium or not and if necessary revert uranium trioxide? Dr Zak 21:29, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Diborane

Good stuff on the history. My D Phil at Oxford was on diborane, both theoretical and experimantal. The undergdauate who wrote the paper, H. Christopher Longuet-Higgins, deserves his own article and I will write it soon. If you link, please use the name as in my link as that is the link in the list of members of the International Academy of Quantum Molecular Science. I'm working through the list of members there. Christopher did great things with Coulson and then dropped Chemistry and made a new name for himself in Artificial Intelligence. That makes his article less than straight forward. On preparation, by far the easiest is NaBH4 plus acid. Sulphuric was used first. I wrote a paper about using phosphoric acid, and that got in "Inorganic Synthesis" (I forget which issue, but it was the 1960s). --Bduke 22:11, 16 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jabir ibn Hayyan

Hi Herald!

Im sorry to bother you. But since you have been involved in many chemistry related articles, your neutral stand is needed in the Jabir ibn Hayyan article, regarding his ethnicity. Nearly all reliable sources say that he was an Arab. I listed all sources here: [1].

Thank you! jidan 01:23, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Re: Geber and Copernicus

If you you like to read the two talk pages, you would take a step back and wait for the dispute to settle a bit. But you are right christian chemist Liebig sounds strange and gives a wrong impression, or even better the christian biologist Charles Darvin. So lets make him an Iran born Arab or an Persian, but with both suggestions you set fire to something nobody wants. My suggestion would be make him be born in one city and a link to the city and everybody who likes the nationality of the guy can figure out that at this time persia and the arabs changed teretory often and had several wares and Iran and Irak where not nations like we know it in our time, but edit wars never follow common sence, but POV pushing attackes and 3RR and all the other time consuming stuff.--Stone 09:21, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, I see that the edit war has blown up a bit... I don't really care either way, but I don't think there should just be his religion. I don't really mind if there is anything there or not, but if there is, then his nationality should prioritise. -postglock 11:49, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
Was his religion a point of big influence on his research? Another point is that with this name and this region of the world something else than islam would be astonishing. Jews christans and hindus were always minorities in the region, I think.-Stone 12:25, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Hi!

A wiki user User:Inahet, had actually took the time to go the library, borrow the book E.J. Holmyard's Makers of Chemistry, and type the part important about Jabir's ethnic background. I have commented this. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Geber#A_test . jidan 17:31, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

Thanks very much for your comment regarding uranium, etc. Badagnani 19:19, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] And you're quick

About C2O: Impressive that you have that info at your "fingertips". As to your English skills, the chemistry is more important and I have not noticed any problems. I was looking at the "bible" again this AM - apparently this TiI4 stuff is semi-important in making high purity Ti. I think htat you mentioned the van Arkel and de Boer processes where the transiently formed TiI4 is transported to a hot filament and reverts to Ti.--Smokefoot 20:05, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Packistani A-bomb

I have put this article up at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Packistani A-bomb. Your opinion on this matter would be appreciated. --DV8 2XL 01:56, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] CN ref's

Stone: You do fast work. I returned the favor with a ref to a rare report on cyanide biosynthesis. Best wishes,--Smokefoot 14:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC) yes--134.76.234.75 07:20, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Uranium pictures

Please could you tell me how I can move the pictures to the commons. As the author of the pictures (who has given away all copyright to the rest of the world) I have no problem with other wikipedia projects using the pictures.Cadmium

[edit] Hyaline oxide

Hyaline oxide is an interesting case. It appears that there is no public record of this compound - there are no references to it in Chemical Abstracts. The cited reference in the journal Microgram is a publication of the US Drug Enforcement Agency whose website says that archives are permanently unavailable to the public. So I think hyaline oxide is not verifiable and therefore subject to deletion according to Wikipedia policy. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:46, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

It's now on AFD: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Hyaline oxide. --Ed (Edgar181) 13:59, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Arbitration

You presence is requested at the Arbitration Re: Removal of humus sapiens admin privilages due to administrative abuse. Please click Wikipedia:Requests for arbitration Israel Article. As you are aware that my article on Human Rights on Israel was salaciously deleted without consulting the talk page on the article. Your comments on this would be appreciated.--Oiboy77 17:30, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Refs Caffene

Hi, Stone! This morning when I woke, I found that a kind editor has already given me a copies of two of the papers: Ramalakshmi, K, et al, Caffeine in Coffee: Its Removal. Why and How?; and Zajac, M, et al, A Novel Method of Caffeine Synthesis from Uracil. My German is very weak, however, so I dount that I would be able to benefit from the third anyway. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 13:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] UO3...again

See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemistry. I don't have time to deal with this today. Olin 12:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

  • Funny! Here I thought I was a chemist who could read and reason! We should have a joint ARFUUW-ERFUUW conference... Olin 17:24, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks!

I, ClockworkSoul, hereby award you with the EMC² Barnstar for all of the time and effort that you put into helping to raise caffeine to featured article status! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
I, ClockworkSoul, hereby award you with the EMC² Barnstar for all of the time and effort that you put into helping to raise caffeine to featured article status! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

As you probably know, caffeine has at last been promoted to featured article status. Thank you for all of the time and effort that you put into raising my beloved article to its current level of quality. Cheers! – ClockworkSoul 15:24, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Germany

Hi Stone,

User:Badbilltucker has recently proposed starting a WikiProject for articles related to Germany. Since you seem to speak German fluently and have contributed to Germany-related articles such as those about the various Max Planck Institutes, I was wondering if you would be interested in helping with this project. If you want to know more about it you can check the List of proposed projects or the temporary page of the project.

Grüße,

--CarabinieriTTaallkk 10:57, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cinnabar

Thanks for the notes (and continued good work in general). I didnt know if HgS is bad, although I know soluble Hg salts are. --Smokefoot 19:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Me again

Thanks for your help with (tms)2S and many other projects. Please remind me about why you like the "cite journal" format vs the ref /ref style that I use - it seems so easy. With best wishes, --Smokefoot 18:28, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip on your formatting method, it is more precise in a way - I will use, eventually. --Smokefoot 14:01, 4 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Areography

Hi Stone,

As of 05Dec2006, someone has renamed the "Martian geography" article to "areography". I left a polite message asking for it to be changed back pending further justification but I may eventually need your help on re-re-directing. I don't think it's worth a big fight, it's clear to me that by leaving "areography" as the default title that we, as the editors of wikipedia, will be giving legitimacy to word that is rarely used. In a sense wikipedia would be creating language rather than describing it.

In any case, thanks for your help. Jespley 05:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Kevlar

You addition has some clumsy wording - I think it should read something like: "The carcinogenic Hexamethylphosphoramide (HMPA) was originally used as the solvent for the polymerisation, but the security level necessary made production highly expensive. A new solvent, a mixture of N-methyl-pyrolidon and calcium chloride, is now used". A reference would be nice too. Snori 14:54, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I've reworded as per the above. Snori 17:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Good work!

Excellent work, saving the Copper(II) fluoride article from deletion! In recognition of how dramatically it's improved since you started work on it, I award you this :) riana_dzasta 03:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
Excellent work, saving the Copper(II) fluoride article from deletion! In recognition of how dramatically it's improved since you started work on it, I award you this :) riana_dzasta 03:53, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Jellybeans

You have been awarded these Jelly Beans from User:-The Doctor- I hope you enjoy these Jelly Beans.
You have been awarded these Jelly Beans from User:-The Doctor- I hope you enjoy these Jelly Beans.

Here are some Jelly Beans for you.. I love Jellybeans as they have sugar in them and most people love sugar.. But on the other hand just recieving somthing from somone else just makes you happy and also just giving this to you makes me happy.. I hope to spread the Jellybeans all over Wikipedia so here you can have this lot.. I hope you enjoy these Jelly Beans.. (I Like the Lime ones)

Editors need a bit of a Sugar Hype too..

An Apple a day keeps -The Doctor- Away.. Or does it! (talk)(contribs) 02:20, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:WikiProject Burma/Myanmar

Hi! Please join us! Chris 07:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Zeise's salt

Nice references. Cheers!--Chris 15:45, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Aldol organocatalysis

Hi Stone, I was wondering if you could take a look at Talk:Aldol_reaction#Organocatalysis and think about if/how we should incorporate this information? Thanks, Walkerma 06:13, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New chemicals

Hi Stone, thanks for adding all the chemicals to the wikiproject. Can I ask you one favour, when creating (or finding) new articles, could you add the {{chemicals}} to the talkpages of these pages, then they get categorised so that the wikiproject can later find them. The template carries two parameters, 'importance' and 'class', you can fill them in if you want, class is probably mostly stub for these articles, we have not discussed the importance-rating for chemicals yet, most will probably be mid, but it can be changed later anyway. Another option is to add them to the huge list under te wikiproject (here). That is the list that user:BetacommandBot is going to tag with {{chemicals}} for us (soonish, I hope). Cheers! --Dirk Beetstra T C 17:10, 12 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Thank you

I was a little worried about my first article, so thank you for adding to it. I was wondering how I might locate and post info on a triphenylmethanol compound I synthesized in undergrad organic chem lab. I think it would be OC(c2ccc5(OC)cc2)(c3ccccc3)c1ccccc1. I was looking for all the typical physical and thermodynamic properties, etc. Mrbell 17:22, 23 February 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Benzoic acid

Hi Stone, in the artcile on benzoic acid you inserted a value of 500 mg/kg for the human LD50 with references. However, the references do not support this statement. Therefore I removed it. Icek 09:03, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Exomars

Am I missing something? How does further delay decrease the payload? Surely the two things are completely separate. Chrislintott 08:51, 16 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] new userbox--what do you think?

A discus
 This user is a member of WikiProject Elements.

Abridged 18:04, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

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