User talk:Sikkema

Welcome!

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Redirecting Ethyleneglycol

The page Ethyleneglycol has been redirected to the existing page Ethylene glycol. In the future, before creating an article, try to determine if Wikipedia already has an article on that topic, by searching for possible alternate titles. If the article exists, but you feel users are likely to look for it under a different name, you can create a redirect page, by creating a page with the text #REDIRECT [[target page]]. — Swpb ^{talk contribs} 23:20, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You must be mistaken, I did not touch that page in eons. Guess you saw User:Swpb's redirect. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 23:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Refs

Hi, you asked somewhere about how to do refs. The manual for that can be found on WP:FOOT. Hope that helps. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 22:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

arkopal

Hi, I left some things on arkopal, maybe that helps you getting that article further. If you need more chemical information, have a look at this site, it is my testsite (for the moment) for a chemical search engine based on wikipedia. Hope this helps. See you around. --Dirk Beetstra ^{T C} 00:23, 17 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Re: M5 fiber

As you requested:

M5 Fiber is a high-performance synthetic fiber produced by Magellan Systems and DuPont Advanced Fiber Systems. It was developed by Dr. Doetze Sikkema at Akzo Nobel. The U.S. Army Soldier Systems Center is considering it for the Future Force Warrior program.
M5 is stronger and lighter than Aramid and UHMWPE (Dyneema), as well as most current armor materials in personal armor systems. It has excellent flame and thermal protection. It can outperform high performance structural composites, also because it can be glued very well, in contrast to Dyneema. M5 is more fire resistant than meta-Aramid. In fact, it is the most fire resistant fiber yet developed. It's less brittle than carbon fiber and won't snap when stretched and is resistant to ultra-violet rays and acid. Due to its strength, it was proposed by Jerome Pearson for a construction of a Lunar space elevator.

Monomer powder is the raw material of the M5 polymer. Polymers are long, molecular strings containing, in this case, as many as 2,000 repeating rings of carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen atoms. Adding an acidic compound that strongly binds to water (diphosphorus pentoxide) to the powder catalyzes a chemical reaction that aligns the monomers and fuses them through chemical bonds along the length of the molecular strings, this is known as a condensation polymerization. This bonding gives M5 some of its properties.

As the polymer solution cools to room temperature, it becomes a pliable, dark red solid that resembles a lump of plastic. The lump is heated and extruded into brightly blue, tiny, barely visible fibers. Later in the production process, the fibers are washed, heated and put under controlled stress. The heat functions to evaporate (part of) the water that is locked in the structure, further enhancing its strength. Tension affects the crystalline structure of the fiber, conferring some of its unique properties.

I am not adding anything else unless necessary, because it will cause unnecessary errors.Mitch32^{(Go Syracuse)} 11:33, 12 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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