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I have degaussed a cat or two in my career, and at times overdid it a bit: http://evansheline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/static-electricity-cat.jpg


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-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 6:57 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question

The answer to my esteemed colleagues question is another of the half fractional elements - Catnium 11.5 (Cn).  It is one of the more abundant elements on the earth as it is found predominantly in cats.  It is why most cats react violently to water.  My daughter has a cat that likes water.  Had the cat analyzed and was found to be deficient in Catnium.

You know why cats like the dark and cool places?  Catnium.  You expose a cat to high tempertures and bad things happen.  In New York, during a rehearsal of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the tin roof got to 150C and the cat went Poof.  Well, more than Poof, 122 cast members were treated for flash burns.  Ugly incident.

You know how you declaw cats to spare your furniture?  The vets save those and sell them to the cigarette lighter companies.  The highest concentration of Catnium is in the claws.  A little friction, raise temp momentarily to 150C, poof, you have fire.  If you only get it up to 140C, you just get sparks. See, all these years you have been throwing away the lighter because you thought the butane was gone when all along you were not getting the catnium hot enough.

The magnetic characteristic that Dave describes is due to the catnium.  A small amount of catnium can be found in catnip which is why a cat is drawn to it so much.  As an experiment, put some fresh catnip in a small bag tied to a long string.  Get the bag close enough to the cat for the magnetism to manifest and you can watch the cat follow the bag no matter 
where it goes.  Magnetic.   And when a cat rubs up against your legs it is 
not because they like you, its because they are trying to demagnetize themselves.  You magnetize the catnium in your average tabby and pretty soon they are stuck to your refrigerator.  Dave's friend Joan is one cat short of being a crazy cat lady and Dave has to go over every Friday, peel them off of the refrigerator and degauss the cats.  I gotta post the video on YouTube.  Degaussed cats look very strange.

Now that you are all educated, my work here is done.  I shall now sit back, await my pending disqualification and see how high it goes on the Lame-O-Meter......

Doug Pauls



From:   "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Date:   12/06/2013 08:15 AM
Subject:        [TN] NTC Friday Element Quiz Question
Sent by:        TechNet <[log in to unmask]>



Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question:

The Question:
This element will ignite at 150C and reacts violently with water. This element is easy to magnetize but extremely difficult to demagnetize. Its used in cigarette lighter flints. 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
Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits
Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
Week 25 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc Week 27 Greg Munie, IPC Week 28 Steve Gregory Week 29 Gus Trakas, Viasystems Week 29 Steve Creswick

Week 30 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group
- assisted with draining ,cleaning & reloading a 800 pound monster HASL machine.

Week 31 Heidi Havelka, Interplex Sunbelt
- Our tool and die making team could use some help setting up presses and maintaining tools, so Clumpy and Kloumpios will get a crash course in precision metal stamping this week! I hope they brought sunglasses and swimsuits, because it's still beach weather here in sunny South Florida, and they should have plenty of time to work on their tan.

Week 32 Raye Rivera, Canoga Perkins
- We are just launching some new products so the boys can help out with product testing for NEBS qualifications. They also apparently had fun in Malibu.

Week 33 Steve Creswick
- assisted with ????

Week 34 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
- the "Boys" and I went to Las Vegas to polish up on their comedy act. I told them that "what happens in Las Vegas, Stays in Las Vegas". I think they took me literally.  I got a note from a Dancer that they left contact 

information in the secret safe where Doug keeps the key to his Mountain Dew stash. Their previous time spent with Graham paid off as they also took my American Express card. I hope they get back safe.

Week 35 ????
- assisted with ????


Everyone have a safe week!

Dave Hillman
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