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Say, how is Clumpy at shovelling snow?   Maybe Canada is not getting much this year.  

How about sending Clumpy back to Cedar Rapids tomorrow, to Chicago and Detroit on Wednesday, and probably to New York and Boston on Thursday?   At least have Clumpy help on the Trans Canada Highway. Looks to me like all Trans-US highways north of the Ohio River are casualties starting on Tuesday so maybe traffic can use the Trans Canada. 

Denny Fritz 










-----Original Message-----
From: Bev Christian <[log in to unmask]>
To: TechNet <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Mon, Jan 31, 2011 8:35 am
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Answer


My wife, Chris Christian, the former Chris Gifford of Indium, once told me she 
r someone from the Indium Corp of America took a trip to Falconbridge in mid 
ier Ontario to talk about indium, which Falconbridge was recovering from 
ume/slag/dust of element X. I had forgotten what element X was, but remembered 
he rest.  It pays to listen to your wife!  :)
Outside of work Clumpy and I will go cross-country skiing (In a backpack, I 
on't have any tiny skis for him.).  At work I will give the co-ops a break and 
ave him help with the RoHS testing of components.
Bev
IM
-----Original Message-----
rom: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David D. Hillman
ent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:26 AM
o: [log in to unmask]
ubject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Answer
Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question:
The Question:
The price of this element has increased by a factor of 6 during the last 2 
decades of the 20th Century. The majority of the world production of this 
lement comes from fume/dust/slags from Zinc mining. This element is a 
uperconductor below 3.37K. This element does not oxidize in room 
emperature air. Which element is being described?
The Answer:
The element is Indium (In)! Indium was discovered in 1863 by Reich and 
ichter. Reich, a colorblind spectroscopist, had Richter assist with color 
eterminations and they found a intense blue spectral line from the 
nalysis of a mineral which they expected to see a green spectral line. 
hey named the element after its indigo blue characteristic spectral line. 
arly applications of Indium were for dental alloys and engine bearings. 
odern applications include solder alloys, neutron absorbing control rods 
or nuclear reactors and as a corrosion inhibitor in alkaline dry cell 
atteries.

 must be giving the right number of clues as we had lots of good guesses 
ut also lots of confusion (gallium and indium share a number of 
imilarities which sent folks down the wrong path). The winner of the quiz 
s again Bev Christian from RIM so Clumpy is going to stay in Canada 
nother week (Bev, you better give him a cot in the lab).
So far Clumpy has:
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
 Was a tackling dummy 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
- ???????????????
Hope everyone had an enjoyable weekend.
Dave Hillman
ockwell Collins
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