potassium is my guess

pat


On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 5:01 AM, David D. Hillman wrote:

> Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> This element is insoluble in acids and hydroxides at room temperature. 
> Sunflower seeds, oats and beef liver all contain this element. The 
> word "lead". 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
> Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems
> Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 20 Denny Fritz
> Week 21 Amol Kane
> Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
> Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs
>
> Week 22 Phil Kinner
> - assisted with ????
>
> Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits
> - The boys arrived on Saturday as promised. Stayed at our place, 
> Stonebridge Farm, and helped hang high tension electric fence for my 
> daughter's horse
> boarding operation. Sunday they helped me pull 300 hr maintenance on 
> the
> tractor, watched Caroline start (break) a horse in training, tipped a 
> few
> back by the pool, enjoyed a glorious purple sunset, tipped a couple 
> more
> while telling stories and watching fire flies . . . took it easy. 
> During the week they worked on the in-line cleaner, validating and 
> verifying the PID setups, repaired our high pressure pump for our 
> factory
> humidification system, which without Steve Gregory's care and 
> attention, had started to leak. Then we kicked around possible ways to 
> keep a 600mm by 450mm by 7.6mm, 60 layer, sequential lamination board, 
> with 33:1 PTH, eight DUT performance board at .4 mm pitch for 1189 
> Ball BGA survive reflow, measured z axis shift, and designed the 
> attachment; pad, ball diameter and
> stencil for the interposers. They had to rush off before we finished
> developing the underfill process needed to stabilize the interposers.
>
> Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
> - The boys have been working hard and surely deserve some break. I'm 
> fixin' to be nice to the boys and just let them sit on my porch, have 
> a Texas drink, relax and enjoy our weather. This summer's been kinda 
> cold around here: has not even hit 40C (104F) yet.
>
> Week 25 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
> - The guys arrived safely, and I sent them to the Erie County Fair. 
> They
> loved the antique tractor/ live steam exhibit, and are now figuring 
> out
> what class their John Deere's can run in the Truck and Tractor pull.
> They are also having a ball in the beer garden.  I'm not sure I will 
> get
> anything constructive out of them this week but they sure are having
> fun!
>
> Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc
> - Well it's time for Clumpy and Kloumpios to join me for some Canadian
> wilderness camping in Algonquin Park, Ontario. What we'll do is put 
> the
> canoe on the van, load up our camping gear, and then we'll head the
> North East area of Algonquin Park. We'll put in on the Barron River 
> and
> canoe up to the river to a portage point where Clumpy and Kloumpios 
> will
> be asked to portage the canoe and gear for about half a kilometer, 
> past
> some falls, until we put back into the river. What we'll do then is
> canoe about a mile up stream and setup camp on a beautiful point of 
> land
> that over looks the Barron Cliffs and has a pine tree every much like
> The Jack Pine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jackpine.jpeg that was
> painted by Tom Thomson in 1916. I'll start fishing; they will do the
> cooking and cleaning.  We will relax for a few days then we'll head 
> back
> to Ottawa (given the mosquitoes don't carry us away). Dave - Maybe we 
> can meet you on the Ottawa River some time next week.
>
> Week 27 ????
> - assisted with ????
>
> Everyone have a safe week!
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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