Congrats Doug. 
On Friday the 13th no less!  Could that mean something?

Robert E. Welch
Senior Process Engineer
Moog Components Group

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Subject: [TN] NTC Element Quiz Answer

Here is the Element Quiz Answer:

The Question:
This element is an "ancient" element as its existence has been known for over 5000 years. Despite being a poison to the human body, physicians administered this element for cases of depression, as an emetic and as a laxative. A sulfide compound containing this element, combined with an oxidizer is used in the creation of fire for everyday use activities. It is used to make percussion caps. Which element is being described?

Bonus Question:
What famous composer was thought to have poisoned by this element as part of depression treatment?

The Answer:
The element is Antimony (Sb)! Antimony derives its name from the Greek words "anti" and "minos" which mean "not alone". Antimony's symbol - Sb - comes from its source mineral stibnium. Antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) is combined with potassium chlorate (KClO3) for use in producing the flammable match heads. Antimony is also combine with lead to make electrical storage batteries.

Bonus Answer:
Some scholars believe that Mozart died due to antimony poisoning resulting from his physicians efforts to treat his depression.


The winner(s) of the weekly element quiz is (drum roll....) Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins and he will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Yes, I know that hell has frozen over and the Chicago Cubs will now win the baseball World Series but Doug submitted the only correct answer (and I didn't give him any assistance). Many folks said "mercury and Mozart" which is one of the other possible Mozart poisoning stories - lots of disagreement by the scholars on Mozart's death. The differentiating clue was that mercury isn't used in the creation of matches or percussion caps.

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, SAIC
Week 21 Amol Kane
Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell
Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Sign
Week 22 Phil Kinner
Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits
Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
Week 25 Keith Calhoun, SoparkCorp
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 Week 31 Heidi Havelka, Interplex Sunbelt Week 32 Raye Rivera, Canoga Perkins Week 33 Steve Creswick Week 34 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week 35 Don Vischulis Week 36 Greg Munie, IPC Week 37 Larry Dzaugis Week 37 Bonus Question Steve Mikell Week 38 Curt McNamara, Logic PD Week 38 Bonus Question Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week 39 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 40 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 40 Ron Feyereisen, Sigmatron Int.
Week 41 Steve Gregory
Week 42 Steve Mikell
Week 43 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger
Week 44 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 44 Eddie Hofer, Rockwell Collins
Week 45 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 46 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week 47 Phil Bavaro,L-3 Communications Week 48 Brian Ellis Week 49 Leland Woodall,CSTech Week 49 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 50 Greg Munie, IPC Week 51 Karen Tellefsen.
Week 52 Greg Munie, IPC
Week 53 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
Week 54 Phil Bavaro, L-3 Com.
Week 55 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. deferred to Richard Stadem, GD, Week 56 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LLC Week 57 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc Week 58 Leland Woodall, CSTech, Inc.
Week 58 Bonus Question Robert Wolfe
Week 59 Greg Munie, IPC
Week 60 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
Week 61 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 62 Leland Woodall Week 62 Brien Bush, Cirtronics Week 63 Pat Goodyear, PGE Week 64 Ed Popielarski Week 65 Jim West, N.S. International Week 66 Brian Ellis Week 67 Ravinder Ajmani, HGST Week 68 Robert Wolfe Week 69 Joe Russeau, PAL.
Week 69 Leland Woodall, Keihin North America Week 70 Jim West, N.S. Internationa Week 71 Steve Gregory Week 72 Bhanu Sood, CALCE Week 72 Ed Popielarsk

Week 72 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group -Cool Ed,  That will dovetail nicely with a project I have in mind for them.  Coordinating X-Y data from our vision controlled Printer Drill & Laser into a unified data base where we can be preemptive on establishing scaling factors for thin innerlayers, flex & soldermask.. I spect Galax is more boonified than you guys, seeing how we just got the internet last year over the protest of a bunch of old timey fiddler players

Week 73 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics GmbH
- Clumpy and Kloumpios have been picked up at Hamburg airport and are looking forward to help with some laboratory work, as until now we haven´t found anybody to run shortage tests of several kW... behind this they get the fantastic chance to redefine physical thermodynamic laws as required by car manufacturer and next weekend I will spend them a Berlin visit, where they can take off to US from the disaster airport

Week 74 Greg Munie, IPC
- Always a pleasure to see the guys again. And they have a treat coming up:
At last it'll be above freezing for a couple of days! So I'll put them together sorting tools in the Abbey workshop. Should keep 'em out of trouble for the week!

Week 75 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
- assisted with ????

Everyone have a safe week.

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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