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Really?  Is the board aware that Diet Mountain Dew has no cane sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup.  

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David D. Hillman
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - the Question

Hi Doug - yes, sadly the Friday Element Quiz Board Arbitration Board
(FEQAB) has ruled your response to be invalid due to the 1910 Edward Smear details. You failed to mention the earlier controversial association of Stickium and Mountain Dew. In December of 1909, a team of enterprising materials and process engineers in Iowa attempted to extract Stickium from corn which was ultimately unsuccessful but they were able to able to produce high fructose corn syrup. That creation initiated the  elimination of cane sugar in Mountain Dew. The FEQAB felt that you should have included that fact in your reply being such a consumer of Diet Mt. Dew. I told them you were a native Wisconsin cheesehead and thus deprived of basic Iowa corn history but that didn't win you any votes. I'll add you response to your other classic guesses.

Dave



Douglas O Pauls/CedarRapids/RockwellCollins
11/11/2011 07:37 AM

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The answer is the element stickium. 

Stickium is a very interesting element, one of the few that have the rare "half fraction" atomic number, in this case 17.5, which is why you don't 
often see it on the periodic table (messes up the format).   

Stickium is most noted as what we chemists refer to as an indicator element.  For example, when stickium is part of lipstick, many marriages have ended by traces of stickium appearing where they should not be. 
Actually, that is where the term lipstick actually came from.  It was originally lipstickium, but marketers shortened it.  It is used in cosmetics as a visual enhancement but primarily  as an adhesion promotor (which is also the root for our present term sticky). 

Another use as an indicator is in cosmetics in general.  When a cosmetic with stickium is applied to some female specimens, and a positive enhancement is achieved, other female specimens turn a mild shade of green.  Some have said this is due to envy, but that is just for the unscientific rabble amongst us.  In fact, what is happening is that the stickium acts a little like the element that is a half step below it in the periodic table - chlorine.  Since most chlorine compounds are greenish, here is your true reason for the change.  In addition, if the secondary female specimen does not turn green, but appreciates the enhancement in another, then stickium is acting like the element a half step above - argon.  Noble gas, noble behavior.  It's all very scientific. 


Dave was actually a bit incorrect in saying that stickium burns in nitrogen.  If the effect above (disparity between female samples) is dramatic enough, the secondary samples burst into flames no matter what the environment.  You need to be more precise Dave. 

The isolation of pure stickum was indeed accomplished in 1910 but noted researcher Edward Smear at the University of Wisconsin - Boulder Junction. 
 His success at the time was really due to having a research team made up entirely of women, almost unheard of at the time.  Interestingly, this is where the term "your lipstick is smeared" is rooted.  As is sadly often the case, the women did the work, Ed got the credit. 

The subsequent incorporation of stickium into cosmetics is held to be one of the underlying causes of World War I.  Some countries had stickium based cosmetics, others did not.  And when women want something bad enough........ 

In the interest of public safety and health, it should be noted that stickium only works with estrogen and is dramatically incompatible with testosterone.  Application of stickium-based cosmetics to males results in horrible effects - most notably Boy George in the 80s. 

Now watch, Hillman is going to disqualify me again for some spurious reason...... 

Doug Pauls 


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Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question:

The Question:

This element has 5 naturally occurring isotopes. This element will burn in 

a nitrogen atmosphere. This element is found in lipstick. A pure sample of 

this element was not produced until 1910. What element is being described?

The winner of the weekly element quiz will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for a 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 Patrick Goodyear, PGE
- assisted with beach trash collection duty

Week 37 Dave Elder, Tait Radio Communications
- assisted Dave Hillman with a geography lesson, watch USA vs Irland in
World Rugby Cup and went skiing.

Week 38 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired
- assisted with ????

Week 39 Andy Giamis, Commscope
- assisted with metallographic cross-sectional analysis of die cast Mg and
taught a group of Cub Scouts how to hotwire a tractor

Week 40 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi
- assisted with a customer audit

Week 41 Ian Fox, Aero Engine Controls
- assisted with pcb cross-section analysis

Week 42 Andy Giamis, Commscope
- Andy gave them the week off (BBQ and English ale party)

Week 43: 4 winners 
          Bev Christian, RIM
- assisted with testing of phthalates
        Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
- assisted with installing a new fuel pump on the tractor, mowing my yard 
and raking the leaves/pine needles.
       Patrick Goodyear, PGE
- assisted with relaxing on the beach following kelp removal efforts
       Richard Stadem,GD-AIS
- assisted with the qualification of a Radon-fueled Airvac PCBRM 5.2 with 
its new 50,000 watt pre-heater and Radon emitting laser reflow head

Week 44 ???,????
- asssisted with ????


Everyone have a safe week.


Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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