Determined not to be tricked by Dave's increasingly strange definition of
Friday I checked my email on my SMART phone first thing British time. Yep!
he had posted the Thursday night element. Fantastic as for the first time
for ages I knew the answer straight away, no surreptitious research needed.
GALLIUM, it's gallium. Tippy tappy on the stupid glass keyboard.
BUM: TechNet did not recognise my phone so I got a rejected posting. 
When I could get to my laptop it was too late.
Gran Sasso is Italian research place which uses gallium to detect neutrinos.
Gallium has other interesting properties such as its an excellent solvent
for other metals, is used to make alloys for mercury substitutes and good
thermal interface materials and... oh well, it's wait till next Thursday, or
maybe Wednesday and try again.

Regards 
 
Mike 

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Fox, Ian
Sent: Friday, July 19, 2013 8:45 AM
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The only 3 metals that I know of that expand on solidification are Bi, Sb
and Ga, and since Ga melts at 31 degC that must be the one. Quite what the
relationship is with Gran Sasso I have no idea, except that it's the site of
one of Italy's national labs...............

Regards
Ian

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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David D. Hillman
Sent: 19 July 2013 04:22
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Subject: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz

Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question (ya, its a day early
again cause I don't like working Fridays):

The Question:
This element has some strange properties. The element will melt in your hand
due to body heat and it expands when changing from a liquid to a solid. It
is associated with the town of Gran Sasso, Italy. 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:

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 Week 8
Brian Ellis Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 10
Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik Week 13 Leland Woodall,
CSTech Inc.
Week 14 Brian Ellis
Week 15 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 16 Steve
Gregory

Week 17 Phil Kinner
- assisted with ????

Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems
- assisted with ????

Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
- Now I have two guys to assist with four screen printer moves this week. 
They're gonna love helping me perform our quality verifications, and they
get to try their hand with cross section work again.

Week 20 Denny Fritz
- My first thought for Clumpy and Kloumpios was to ask if they knew how to
drain swamps.  It has rained here in Indiana almost every day for 10 days
and is forecast to thunderstorm for almost ten more.  Any chance Kloumpios
has any biblical roots and is related to Noah of Ark fame??  At the very
least, please have Graham Naisbitt ship some wellies (Wellington boots) here
to Indiana for the coming week. Only slightly more seriously, what do Clumpy
and Kloumpios know about counterfeit components?  Any day, I expect to be
thrown into that messy topic to support the Department of Defense. 
And, what clearance do the guys have - confidential, secret, top secret, or
keep-from-telling-Doug?. Can either run an XRF or SEM?  I presume they have
eagle eyes, so they can observe components through our optical microscopes.
Finally, is either carrying a small spare lead-acid battery? 
 Our UPS unit protecting the instruments from the too frequent lightning
surges crapped out last week. 

Week 21 Amol  Kane
- the boys can help me with optimization and qualification of Process
Equipment like stencil printer and wash. In their spare time they can enjoy
the fine TX summer

          Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
- the boys can stay 2 days with me and as I've always said "a man's home is
his castle, in a manor of speaking". I'll be training them in stand-up
comedy dealing with the dichotomy of Technet humor. Their names and act will
be " Grim and Stellar".

          David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs
- since I will be out next week, they can take those 2 days off.  Everybody
deserves a weekend once in a while.

Week 22 ?
- assisted with ?

Everyone have a safe week!

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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