Dagnabit, was out on Friday so have missed the chance of a matching pair
of chairs..............

Ian 

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David D. Hillman
Sent: 02 July 2010 21:01
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Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz The Question

Hi folks - here is the Friday Element Quiz:

The Question:

        Only 5 metals have melting points higher than this element. It
is nontoxic and is used in biomedical implants. It is a constituent in
stainless steel, in nuclear fission reactor core structures, and is a
substitute for the element Ta for aqueous corrosion resistance
processing equipment. This element has nearly unlimited room temperature
ductility characteristics. This element that had two different names up
to  the early 1950's until the international chemist union settled the
discussion on which one was correct.  Who am I?

The Answer:

The element is Niobium! As the old adage states " you can spot old
American metallurgists from a thousand miles away, those troglodytic
folks still say "columbium"! An English chemist, Charles Hachett
identified an element he named "columbium" in 1801 and a German chemist,
Heinrich Rose, identified an element he named "niobium" in 1846. It took
a century of discussion before the element was officially named niobium
in 1949! 


Eric Christison was the first to correctly (and incorrectly after 1949)
answer to the quiz. I'll be shipping my chair to him and sitting on
several cases of Diet Coke until we get our 2011 budgets.

Everyone have a great weekend.


Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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