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Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer:

The Question:
A total of 8 tons of this element is extracted every year. An radioactive 
isotope of this element is used for industrial material thickness 
measurements. The word "hidden". What element is being described?

The Answer:

The element is Krypton (Kr)! The word Krypton was derived from the Greek 
word "kryptos" meaning "hidden". Radioactive Kr-85 is used as the source 
of radiation to measure industrial material thickness.


The winner of the weekly element quiz is Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, 
Space and Security and he will get the services of Clumpy and 
Kloumpios for the week. Quite the diversity of Quiz guesses this week. 
Kudos goes to Nigel Burtt for recognizing that the word "hidden" was a 
clue discriminator - Clumpy and Kloumpios were a little disappointed Nigel 
was thinking Latin and not Greek. The Boys hopped on Interstate 80 in 
their John Deere tractors and are heading out to Tom's facility asap.


So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following:


Past Quiz winners/tasks:
Week 1 Dick Krug,  Spartan Complex Systems
- Clumpy and Kloumpios arrived and were happy to get some warm weather. 
Saturday they helped rake leaves (yes it's fall in Tampa) then went to the 


Florida State Fair.  They seemed most interested in some of the new 
tractors, muttering something about the closed cab would be a more 
comfortable ride, but they also took advantage of the opportunity for Fair 


food.  I couldn't believe how much deep fried food they ate - Snickers, 
butter, burgers, ..., you name it.  Yesterday they didn't feel good so 
just sat around in the sun most of the day. This week I'm going to pick 
their brains on how to improve our ECN implementation process.  If they 
can't contribute much I'll send them back to the fair as sort of a winter 
vacation. 

Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC
- unknown

Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited
- assisted with a "haring" activity

And Pat Goodyear, PGE
 - This time the boys will get to do some REAL work, they each have scoop 
shovels and at present are shoveling piles of U-O2 pellets for refueling 
the cook pot.  We are in the middle of a 60 day refuel outage so their 
help came at an opportune time, the majority of our contract crew left 
this evening, (laid off).   They are however complaining that it is hot 
and they have been working in dry suits and sweating profusely, and they 
have no beers to drop, not allowed on the property.   I offered them Gator 


aid but they just laughed.  I asked them if they knew anything about 
electronics and they could work with us technicians, but they just mumbled 


about John Deere tractors.   They will be working the next 3 days around 
the clock, they will get rest when they are done, we have to get back on 
schedule.

Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory
- assisted with running an ion chromatograph and see how adept they are at 

reviewing SIR data.

Week 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
- assisted with ????


Everyone have a safe week!

Dave Hillman 
Rockwell Collins


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