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The answer, of course, is Egyptium.  The same element was claimed by the 
Babylonians as Babylite, but the Egyptions had a better marketing 
department.  Interestingly enough, the Tower of Babel would have been 
completed except they hit a pocket of Babylite during construction and 
that was it for the project.  Sadly, they took large amounts of the ore to 
their legislature and it somehow changed the genetic DNA of politicians 
and they have been Babbling ever since.  A little know fact.

Egyptium deposits (huge ones) were often found near the banks of the Nile 
River, which explains the fertility of the Nile River valley when it 
flooded each year.  Egyptium is an excellent cockroachicide which is why 
you never see any large statues of cockroaches in Egyptian ruins.  There 
simply weren't any.  And for you nitpickers out there, scarabs are 
beetles, not cockroaches.

There are indeed two stable isotopes of the material, only one of which 
can be used for cosmetics.  It is a trace element in diamond which is why 
some people look better with jewelry.The other isotope makes you ugly as 
sin. Same isotope is responsible for why some people look like they were 
sandblasted.  Choose wisely.

The Romans, who came much later, also tried to take credit for this 
material, but could never get pass the Senate.  Must have been too much 
Babylite around.  Come to think of it, must be a huge deposit of that 
stuff in Washington.

Once again, I win the challenge with my great essoteric knowledge.  But 
you just watch --> Hillman will disqualify me somehow.  Jealousy and envy 
are nasty things in a metallurgist............

Doug Pauls



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Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question a day early (I am 
taking vacation on Friday to whitewater kayak):

The Question:

References of this element can be traced back to documentation from 
ancient Babylon, Egypt and Rome. This element is used to make cosmetics 
have a silky feel and yet is the basis for many industry abrasives. 
Compounds of this element are being investigated as a treatment for brain 
tumors. This element is essential for plants and is added to fertilizers. 
This element is the basis for an insecticide for ants and cockroaches. 
This element has two naturally occurring isotopes with neither being 
radioactive. What element is being described?


The winner of the weekly quiz will get the services of Clumpy and 
Kloumpios for the week.

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 ????, ????
- assisted with ????


Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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