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Hello Graham and Technet! Nope, the pink is actually a critical  clue and 
I do not yet have a correct answer to the quiz.

Dave



From:   Graham Naisbitt <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:   11/15/2012 02:46 PM
Subject:        Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question
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I wondered if think pink was a ruse, but my guess is Lithium

Graham Naisbitt

On 15 Nov 2012, at 13:21, David D. Hillman <[log in to unmask]> 
wrote:

> Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question (ya, this is early 
but 
> I am on travel and now is convenient):
> 
> The Question:
> 
> This element is a critical material in the operation of MRI scanners. 
The 
> primary mining countries for this element are the USA and China. Think 
> "pink".  What element is being described?
> 
> 
> The winner of the weekly element quiz will get the services of Clumpy 
and 
> Kloumpios for the week.
> 
> So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:
> (I have archived previous weeks to keep the email size manageable):
> 
> Past Quiz winners/tasks:
> Week 1 Lamar Young, SCS Coatings
> Week 2 Bev Christian, RIM
> Week 3 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc
> Week 4 Ian Fox, Goodrich
> Week 4 Gary Ferrari, Garrick Global
> Week 5 Fredrick Miller, Astrola
> Week 6 David Nelson, Raytheon
> Week 7 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
> Week 8 Bill Noel, ITT Geospatial Systems Division
> Week 9 Steve Gregory of RD Circuits
> Week 10 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs
> Week 11 Dick Krug of Sparton Corporation
> Week 12 Steve Creswick, Balanced Enterprise Solutions
> Week 13 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi
> Week 14 Bev Christian, RIM
> Week 15 Bev Christian, RIM
> Week 16 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs
> Week 17 Brian Ellis
> Week 18 Denny Fritz, SAIC
> Week 19 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
> Week 20 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya
> Week 20 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
> Week 21 Brian Ellis and Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense
> Week 22 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc.
> Week 23 Bev Christian, RIM
> Week 24 Steve Gregory, RD Circuits
> Week 25 Ahne Oosterhof, A-Laser
> Week 26 Scott Post, Delphi
> Week 27 Brian Ellis
> Week 28 Nigel Burtt
> Week 29 Richard Stadem,GD-AIS
> Week 30 Robert Wolfe, Kimchuk Inc and Graham Naisbitt, Gen3
> Week 31 Bev Christian, RIM Inc, and Denny Fritz, SAIC
> Week 32 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired
> Week 33 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya
> Week 34 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 35 Joe Russeau, Precision Analytical Laboratories
> Week 36 Patrick Goodyear, PGE
> Week 37 Dave Elder, Tait Radio Communications
> Week 38 Steve Mikell, supposedly retired
> Week 39 Andy Giamis, Commscope
> Week 40 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi
> Week 41 Ian Fox, Aero Engine Controls
> Week 42 Andy Giamis, Commscope
> Week 43: Bev Christian, RIM, Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc., 
>         Patrick Goodyear, PGE and Richard Stadem,GD-AIS
> Week 44 Patrick Goodyear, PGE
> Week 45 Dock Brown, Medtronic
> Week 46 Dock Brown, Medtronic and Bev Christian, RIM
> Week 47 Graham Collins, L3 Communications
> Week 48 Mike Fenner, Indium
> Week 49 Reuven Rokah
> Week 50 Rex Waygood, Hansatech EMS
> Week 51 Bev Christian, RIM
> Week 52 Dock Brown, Medtronic
> Week 53 Ian Fox, Aero Engine Controls
> Week 54 Steve Mikell and Phil Anslow, MBDA Systems
> Week 55 Brian Ellis
> Week 56 Aleks Lozinsky, Technic Canada
> Week 57 Tan Geok Ang, NA
> Week 58 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi and Aleks Lozinsky, Technic Canada
> Week 59 Rex Waygood, Hansatech EMS
> Week 60 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
> Week 61 Joshua Muonio, Analog Technologies Corp.
> Week 62 Dock Brown, Medtronics
> Week 63 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
> Week 64 James Head, Crowcon
> Week 65 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
> Week 66 Lamar Young, SCS Coating
> Week 67 Steve Creswick, Balanced Enterprise Solutions
> Week 68 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc
> Week 69 Denny Fritz, SAIC
> Week 70 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 71 Amol Kane, AsteelFlash US East Corp
> Week 72 Lamar Young, Specialty Coating Systems, Inc.
> Week 73 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corporation and Joe Russeau, PAL
> Week 73.1 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
> Week 74 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense and Richard Stadem, GD-AIS
> Week 75 Graham Naisbitt, Gen3 System
> Week 76 Ian Fox, Aero Engine Controls
> Week 77 Richard Stadem, GD-AIS
> 
> Week 78 Blair Hogg, GAI-Tronics
> - assisted with a visit to the Reading Vanity Fair outlets for their 
> holiday sale for new winter clothes, getting the Teradyne back up and 
> running and finally assembling a new grill.
> 
> Week 79 Brian Ellis
> - assisted with:  I'll treat them to Souvla washed down with a bottle of 

> Othello. Since I have two fractured vertebrae, I'm going to ask them to 
> do some weeding; the garden is in a sorry state. I hope they may have 
some 
> attachments for their machines to help with the task, a harrowing 
> experience. I'll let Kloumpios go and visit his family for a couple of 
> days.
> 
> Week 80 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> - assisted with a new solder joint  accelerated reliability test and to 
> debug the software and hardware of the system
> 
> Week 81 Brian Ellis
> - assisted with loads of weeding the garden and a couple days or rest 
and 
> relaxation
> 
> Week 82 Joe Russeau, Precision Analytical Laboratories
> - assisted with completing a large number of tests in the lab
> 
> Week 83 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
> - Unknown
>          Fred Cox, MET
> - Unknown
> 
> Week 84 Tom Granat, BAE Systems
> - Unknown
> 
> Week 85 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc
> - assisted with developing a Quality reflection report 
> 
> Week 86 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited
> - helped paint the ceilings of my home and the re-survey of an 
> orienteering map for my local club.  They didn't quite get the concept 
of 
> staying still long enough for me to get a bearing on them though so the 
> resulting map be "interesting".  They were rewarded with more English 
Ale 
> before I packed them off to Leland.
> 
> Week 87 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc
> - assisted with ????
> 
> Week 88 ????
> - assisted with ????
> 
> 
> Everyone have a safe week!
> 
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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> 
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