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Dave,

I sent this last night, but IPC bounced me back...

Steve C

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Creswick [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 8:18 PM
To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum'
Subject: RE: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question

Holmium!

Holmium oxide can be red/pink under proper illumination

Steve C

-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David D. Hillman
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2012 7:04 PM
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question

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]>
To:     <[log in to unmask]>
Date:   11/15/2012 02:46 PM
Subject:        Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question
Sent by:        TechNet <[log in to unmask]>



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
> [log in to unmask]
> 
> 
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