Hi folks - here is the Quiz:

The Question:
A pure sample of this element was first produced in 1953. The element is
one of four elements deriving its name from a specific town in Sweden.
This element is responsible for the current atomic clock stability
records. This
element finds use as a dopant to help improve the grain refinement,
strength, and other mechanical properties of stainless steel. What element
is being described?

The Answer:
The element is Ytterbium (Yb)! The first pure sample was produced in 1953
by using ion-exchange processes. The village of  Ytterby in Sweden is the
source for the names of ytterbium,  yttrium, terbium and erbium. Ytterbium
clocks hold the record for stability with ticks stable to within less than
two parts in 1 quintillion. The clocks developed at the National Institute
of Standards and Technology (NIST) rely on about 10,000 rare-earth atoms
cooled to 10 microkelvin (10 millionths of a degree above absolute zero)
and trapped in an optical lattice—a series of pancake-shaped wells made of
laser light.


The winner(s) of the quiz  is Denny Fritz and he will get the services
of Clumpy
& Kloumpios for the week.

The Elements Quiz Arbitration Board (EQAB) did review Doug's response of
"Clocknium" as a  possible valid answer but unfortunately their ruling was
the answer was incorrect. The EQAB did confirm that the current atomic
clock utilizes Yb and not the element cesium.

So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:

*Past Quiz winners/tasks:*
Week 1 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.
Week 3 John Burke
Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
Week 8 Leland Woodall
Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS
Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 13 No Quiz,
Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 16 John Maxwell
Week 17 Leland Woodall
Week 18 Leland Woodall
Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 20 Robert Kondner
Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.
Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems
Week 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International
Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose
Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 28 Leland Woodall
Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 30 Leland Woodall
Week 31 Leland Woodall
Week 32 Steve Gregory
Week 33 Leland Woodall
Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem
Week 38 Leland Woodall
Week 38 Tom Carroll
Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 40 Leland Woodall
Week 41 Tom Carroll
Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 43 Joyce Koo
Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 45 Leland Woodall
Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems
Week 47 Fred Cox, Bluering Stencils
Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose
Week 49 Leland Woodall
Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 52 Leland Woodall
Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS
Week 54 Leland Woodall
Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
Week 58 Leland Woodall
Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark
Week 60 Leland Woodall
Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 62 Leland Woodall!
Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 63 Tom Granat
Week 64 George Wenger
Week 65  Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc.
Week 66  Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
Week 66  Leland Woodall
Week 67  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
Week 68  James Head
Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
Week 71  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
Week 72  Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 73 Denny Friz
Week 74 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 74 Leland Woodall
Week 75 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 76 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 76 Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
Week 77 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 78 David Bealer, WatchFire Signs
Week 79 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
Week 80 Russell Kido, Practical Components

Week 83 Russell Kido, Practical Components

Week 84 Tom Granat

Week 85 Leland Woodall

Week 85 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.

Week 86 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.

Week 87 Steven Herring, Pennatronics Corp

Week 88 Leland Woodall

Week 89 Tom Carroll, Boeing

Week 90 Tom Brendlinger

Week 91 Leland Woodall

Week 90 David Bealer

Week 91 Leland Woodall

Week 92 David Bealer

Week 93 Leland Woodall

Week 94 Eray Canli, Nurol BAE Systems

Week 95 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital

Week 96 Bev Christian

Week 96 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics

Week 97 Russell Kido, Practical Components

Week 98 Bhanu Sood, NASA

Week 99 Robert Wolfe

Week 100 Steve Gregory

Week 101  Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Technologies

Week 102  Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp


Week 103 Raye Rivera

- I'm looking forward to having the guys out here in sunny Southern
California, where it happens to be pouring rain at the moment. But it is
nothing the John Deere can't handle. They can help me sort out some
mechanical tolerance issues that are holding up production. And if they
didn't get enough skiing in at Arapahoe Basin, our local area, Big Bear, is
supposed to open on Friday.


Week 104 Carl Van Wormer

- I'll ask them to spend the first 12.7 seconds trying to find my lost atom
of darmstadtium-281, and then I'll have them spot me at the I-Fly vertical
wind tunnel.  After that, we'll head over to the electric go-carts at K-1
Speed, with the 2 losers assigned to assemble the next batch of
ShortSniffers.  They are pretty good at assembly work as long as they are
supplied with pepperoni pizza, dark-German root beer and loud rock-n-roll
from the 60s and 70s.


Week 105 Denny Fritz

- assisted with ????


I hope everyone has an awesome week!
Dave Hillman
Collins Aerospace
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