Both of you need to send me a rough draft. Nobody can edit better than I can.
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Well, actually, writing a book is on Hillman's and my "bucket list".
Playing with a working title of "It Hurts When I Do This - Don't Do This".
Perhaps the half fractionals could be an Appendix.
Doug Pauls
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Date: 04/22/2013 06:47 PM
Subject: RE: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question
Doug,
I really think you SHOULD write a book, it could be very entertaining, have Steve do the cartoons.
pat
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Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 8:06 AM
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The answer to this morning's quiz is Anubium (Ab), another of the half fractional elements. Anubium is often found near deposits of Egyptium, covered earlier. Those familiar with Egyptian mythology know that Anubis was the god of embalming and the dead and was often characterized as a man with the head of a black jackel. The earliest hieroglyphics in Egypt showed Anubis with the head of a white jackel. It is believed that when Anubis and Osiris were children, Osirus was playing with flint and steel and set Anubis' head on fire, hence the blackened appearance. Anubis thereafter had a fear of sparks, developed a new element to alloy into copper (making bronze), which would not create sparks, ushering in the Bronze Age.
Anubium was first isolated by the brilliant Egyptian chemist, Omar Gottalottasand, Egypt State University - Aswan, in 1841. It was found that in the tomb of Pharoah Sekhemib-PerenmaŽat, there were signs of small explosions in the crypt, usually in areas near Anubium-alloyed metals. He found that Anubium, usually found as Anubium tetrasulfate (Ab2S4) in mineral form, served as an amazing catalyst to turn vapors from bodily composition into hydrogen, resulting in the explosions in the crypt, which also had traces of Boomium nearby (bad combination). Not a great deal was published about Anubium as Dr. Gottalottasand came to a tragic end. He got into some bad falafel and the resulting methane interacted with a sample of pure Anubium. The resulting fireball is still considered one of the largest man made explosions prior to the advent of nuclear weapons.
I am amazed none of the rest of you know about these "special" elements. I should write a book.
There ya go Larry.
Doug Pauls
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Date: 04/19/2013 07:44 AM
Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question
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Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question:
The Question:
This element was known to the Egyptians in its mineral form. Alloying 2% of this element with another element produces an alloy that when used in hammering/striking applications will not cause sparks - an especially good
characteristic in an explosive gas environment. A compound of this element
has been used to produce hydrogen for fuel cells. What is the 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:
Past Quiz winners/tasks:
Week 1 Dick Krug, Spartan Complex Systems
Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC
Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited
Week 3 Pat Goodyear, PGE
Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory
Week 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
Week 6 Steve Gregory
Week 7 Phil Kinner, PVA
- assisted with booth duty at a French tradeshow and then helped get an
Easter egg hunt ready for 20 kids
Week 8 Brian Ellis
- the guys arrived this morning, thanks. This is the end of the most
prolific part of the growing season and weeds abound. The John Deere's
will be very useful to help eliminate them. Kloumpios has said he will
prepare a traditional Cypriot ttavas (lamb pieces with veggies with cumin
and wild herbs, slow oven-cooked in a special unglazed clay pot - Google
it) for the 1 April Cyprus National Day.
Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited
- My Welsh colleague Jeff, whose desk is next to mine, was on holiday this
last week so Clumpy and Kloumpios parked themselves in his seat and spent
the week spouting jibes and insults, particularly about English Rugby - it
was just like Jeff was still there! I think you could put that down as
"providing workplace entertainment and uplifting moral".
Week 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
- assisted with a 5S effort - They're scrubbing, replacing old floor tape,
and helping to get things in pristine shape.
Week 11 ????
- assisted with ????
Everyone have a safe week!
Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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