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No problem you got it! They'll just do double duty this week.

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Graham Naisbitt
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 8:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Answer

I've been robbed!

Extra time required to answer the bonus question rendered me 2nd but completed both parts of the question. I want a re-count....or at least a couple of days for them here?

Robert - can I at least have them Thursday and Friday? I need them to analyse some Cleanliness and SIR test results and the usual guy can't do it all on his own. How about it?

Graham N

On 25 Jul 2011, at 15:01, David D. Hillman wrote:

> Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer:
> 
> The Question:
> 
> This element plays no biological role and the world production is less 
> than 1 ton per year. It has an important use in the space industry and is 
> a critical part of a late 1990's space mission. It's role on the space 
> craft could be completed by either mercury or caesium but this element has 
> 
> several advantages over those two elements. This element has nine 
> naturally occurring isotopes. What element is being described?
> 
> Bonus question: What is the name of the space mission/craft that utilizing 
> 
> this element in the late 1990s?
> 
> The Answer:
> 
> The element is Xenon (Xe)! Xenon has a number of commercial lighting 
> applications (such as strobe lights for high speed photography) but little 
> other uses. It has also been used as a supercritical fluid for studying 
> molecules under extreme conditions in research laboratories. Xenon 133 is 
> generated in nuclear power applications and has a half life of 5 days. 
> Xenon is the critical element for the Xenon Ion Propulsion System (XIPS). 
> Both mercury and caesium could be used for ion propulsion but mercury has 
> handling toxicity issues and caesium is extremely corrosive. And in space, 
> Xenon freezes into a solid which is advantageous. The Deep Space I probe 
> (launched in 1998)was the "trial bed" for the XIPS engine. There are now 
> over 10 satellites and space craft successfully using ion propulsion 
> systems.
> 
> 
> There were many, many correct responses for Xe but Robert Wolfe was the 
> first response past the firewall and will get the services of Clumpy and 
> Kloumpios. Robert will need to let me know where he is located and we'll 
> send the guys on their way. We had only one correct answer for the bonus 
> question -  Graham Naisbitt had the correct answer.
> 
> 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, ???
> - assisted with ???
> 
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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