So who did answer the FEQAB question correctly? Who's the winner?
Victor,
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Hi Doug - the Friday Element Quiz Arbitration Board (FEQAB) spend the weekend researching your proposed answer to the Friday Element Quiz. The FEQAB files did not contain sufficient information for the 7 board members to make a ruling so they contacted the American Dental Association (ADA) for additional information and opinion. The ADA addresses issues requiring arbitration so they have a panel of 5 professionals on staff - you may have seen reported on TV where 4 out of 5 dentists have ruled on a particular issue. The ADA panel of 5 reviewed the FEQAB and ADA files researching the technical aspects of your response. In the end, 4 our of 5 dentists did not accept your response of "Toothium" as an acceptable answer. The FEQAB thanks you for your efforts and encourages your continued participation in the Quiz.
Dave
From: Douglas Pauls <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: 11/30/2012 07:11 AM
Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question
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Ahh, a chance for some education.
The answer is Toothium, another of the half fractional elements, which lies between silver and cadmium in the outdated "standard" periodic tables. Silver has often been used for dental work, but Toothium has just
enough of the toxic effects of cadmium to make it impractical for use in false teeth. Interestingly, Toothium is found naturally in the ore called
Dentite, taken from the Latin word "Bitmeous" (translated "Bite Me").
While historians are not in agreement on this, it is believed that a large
surface vein of Dentite made a small village in southern Spain particularly disagreeable when trace amounts leached into the city water supply, and the term Bite Me was frequently used there. This was early in
the Roman Empire, so details are sketchy.
The use of small amounts of Toothium in solid state electronics is mostly as a counter agent to LEDs. Toothium has the ability to absorb some levels of photons and so can make LEDs dimmer. Low energy light bulbs would actually be high output light bulbs except for Toothium which acts as a contaminant. Early dental experiments also showed that the subjects teeth got noticeably less bright when Toothium was present, at least up until the point the subject died.
Toothium was not successfully isolated until 1956 by a team of researchers, and you're NOT going to believe this, by Drs. Fang and Molar at Colgate University. They were assisted by Dr. Crest and Dr. Floss, both doing their post doc work at Colgate.
I really have a good use for Clumpy and Kloumpios this next week, but I wait in breathless anticipation to see how my neanderthal colleague disqualifies me this week.
Doug Pauls
From: "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
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Date: 11/30/2012 06:30 AM
Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz - The Question
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Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question:
The Question:
This element has no biological role. The element is used in solid state devices and low energy light bulbs. A ceramic containing this element was once proposed for making false teeth but that idea never became a commercially reality. 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 Week 79 Brian Ellis Week 80 Mordechai Kirshenbaum Week 81 Brian Ellis
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
- I took Clumpy and Kloumpios straight to the coast after picking them up from RDU over the weekend. I thought they might be able to assist in the beach road clean-up after the hurricane.
Week 88 Bev Christian, RIM
- assisted with the last details as we get ready for Blackberry 10.
Week 89 Tom Granat, BAE Systems
- assisted with unknown
Week 90 ????
- assisted with ????
Everyone have a safe week!
Dave Hillman
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