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Thank you, thank you.  A successful appeal!

The boys will spend their day or two with me looking at increasing our
capabilities in testing for more, different phthalates.

Bev

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David D. Hillman
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 8:21 PM
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Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Answer

Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer:

The Question:

This element is highly unstable and very dangerous due to its intense 
radioactivity. This element has 31 isotopes but none have a half life of 
more than a few hours. When this element is cooled below its freezing 
point, it phosphoresces brightly. What element is being described?


Bonus question: Name the country where this element was initially 
discovered, and name the university/country who is given credit for the 
discovery of the element.

The Answer:

The element is Radon (Rn)! The discovery of Radon was not a "clean" 
exercise. Radon was called niton, Latin for "shining" by William Ramsay 
and Robert Whytlaw-Graw who studied it in 1908 in University College, 
London. The first "discoverer" was Friedrich Ernst Dorn at Halle, Germany 
in 1900 while he investigated radium compounds. In 1902, Ernst Rutherford 
and Frederick Soddy at McGill University in Canada studied the gas showing 
it could be condensed into a liquid. In 1923 the International Committee 
of Chemical Elements proposed the name radon. The greatest risk of radon 
is not itself but the isotopes it transmutes into such as lead-210 which 
has a half life of 22 years. 


The winner of the weekly element quiz is a bit of a convoluted mess. The 
Friday Element Quiz Rule Arbitration Committee (FEQRAC) has reviewed the 
data, the requests for appeals, the time stamps on the submitted results, 
Doug's current consumption of Diet Mountain Dew and determined the follow 
"group" is declared the winner of this week's quiz: Bev Christian, RIM, 
Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc., Patrick Goodyear, PGE and Richard 
Stadem,GD-AIS. Clumpy and Kloumpios are going to hit all 4 facilities - I 
heard the John Deere's fire up and tear out of here earlier. Their GPS 
planning grid shows a plan of hitting Richard first, Bev second,hopping a 
train to Leland's third and a cargo flight to Pat's last. Good thing they 
had last week off. Please send me what you have planned for their task at 
each facility.


So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have:

Week 1 Lamar Young, SCS Coatings
- accomplished nothing (drank lots of coffee)

Week 2 Bev Christian, RIM
- conducted REACH material testing

Week 3 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc.
- Solderability testing and mowed the lawn

Week 4 Ian Fox, Goodrich
- had an epic journey of travel

Week 4 Gary Ferrari, Garrick Global
- unknown

Week 5 Fredrick Miller, Astrolab
- unknown

Week 6 David Nelson, Raytheon
- Were tackling dummys for Dallas Cowboys

Week 7 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
- Cleaned gutters and painted window trim

Week 8 Bill Noel, ITT Geospatial Systems Division
- unknown

Week 9 Steve Gregory of RD Circuits
- unknown

Week 10 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs
- descaled the in-line wash machine! Ouch!

Week 11 Dick Krug of Sparton Corporation
- assisted with AS9100 quality management systems requirements audit

Week 12 Steve Creswick of Balanced Enterprise Solutions
- Acted as Steve's "go fer" due to a broken leg!

Week 13 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi
- conducted a plasma pre treatment Taguchi DOE for a sealing process

Week 14 Bev Christian, RIM
- assisted with a tin pest investigation/test

Week 15 Bev Christian, RIM
- assisted Bev shoveling snow

Week 16 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs
- assisted with reflow profiling

Week 17 Brian Ellis, rumored to be retired
- assisted with rewiring the house, had a tractor accident and found his
cousin Kloumpios

Week 18 Denny Fritz, SAIC
- assisted with tin whisker inspection/examinations

Week 19 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
- assisted with scraping barnacles, boat paint and boat engine maintenance

Week 20 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya
- assisted with weather observations (70F to snow) and resolving
electrochemical migration failures

Week 20 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
- assisted with commercial aircraft galley inspection

Week 21 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired, and Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense,
Space and Security
- assisted with root cause corrective action tasks
- assisted with nothing but catching up with the family

Week 22 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc.
- assisted with metallographic cross-sections and Dye & Pry testing

Week 23 Bev Christian, RIM
- assisted with a creep corrosion project and the setting up of an oxygen
bomb

Week 24 Steve Gregory, RD Circuits
- unknown

Week 25 Ahne Oosterhof, A-Laser
- assisted with stencil aperture data analysis and split/stacked firewood

Week 26 Scott Post, Delphi
- assisted/participated in the Kokomo Airshow Race Event

Week 27 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired
- assisted with tedious website work and family home cooking

Week 28 Nigel Burtt
- abandoned Nigel and were rumored to be involved in UK News Corps/News
International cellphone/journalism/politics scandal

Week 29 Richard Stadem,GD-AIS
- unknown

Week 30 Robert Wolfe, Kimchuk Inc and Graham Naisbitt, Gen3
- assisted with a hot tub refurbishment for post work day de-stressing
- assisted with SIR and Cleanliness testing

Week 31 Bev Christian, RIM Inc, and Denny Fritz, SAIC
- assisted with lab testing
- assisted with tin whisker investigations

Week 32 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired
- attempted to provide both US Congress and EU lawmakers "engineered"
solutions

Week 33 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya
- unknown

Week 34 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
- assisted with new model qualifications,updating supporting
documentation, strain gaging, performing cross sections, verifying a new
selective soldering process, and finally assisted with the development of
a plant-wide countermeasure effectiveness auditing program (Wow, they had
to work hard this week!)

Week 35 Joe Russeau, Precision Analytical Laboratories
- assisted with new equipment preparations

Week 36 Patrick Goodyear, PGE
- assisted with beach trash collection duty

Week 37 Dave Elder, Tait Radio Communications
- assisted Dave Hillman with a geography lesson, watch USA vs Irland in
World Rugby Cup and went skiing.

Week 38 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired
- assisted with ????

Week 39 Andy Giamis, Commscope
- assisted with metallographic cross-sectional analysis of die cast Mg and
taught a group of Cub Scouts how to hotwire a tractor

Week 40 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi
- assisted with a customer audit

Week 41 Ian Fox, Aero Engine Controls
- assisted with pcb cross-section analysis

Week 42 Andy Giamis, Commscope
- Andy gave them the week off (BBQ and English ale party)

Week 43 Bev Christian, RIM
- assisted with ????
         Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
- assisted with ????
        Patrick Goodyear, PGE
- assisted with ????
        Richard Stadem,GD-AIS
- assisted with ????


Everyone have a safe week.


Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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