And while the 1/2 life of moronium is 4 years it never seems to go away. 

Spontaneous Generation?

Bob Kondner

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The element is moronium.  We have a huge deposit of it in Washington 
DC...................

Doug Pauls



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Hi folks - I am heading for Wisconsin for a weekend of whitewater kayaking 

so here is the Friday Quiz early - it will also give folks in other time 
zones more opportunity to participate as I'll post the question on Tuesday 

(Monday is a holiday here in the US).

The Question: 

I am an element that was first produced in the 1940's. This element decays 

by both alpha and gamma which poses serious safety issues when handling 
large quantities. However, this element is considered an inexpensive 
radiation source for portable gamma radiography of welds and as a 
thickness gauge in the manufacture of glass. The alpha radiation 
characteristics provide an ionization source for smoke detectors. A 
typical household smoke detector contains 200 ug of this element. What 
element am I?


The winner of this week's quiz will get to have Clumpy, the 8th dwarf, 
work for them for a week.

So far Clumpy has:

Week 1 - accomplished nothing
Week 2 - conducted REACH material testing
Week 3 - Solderability testing

Good Luck.

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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