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Hi Doug,

Great to have you back in full form.  You made my day.

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Ravinder Ajmani
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-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Douglas Pauls
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2015 6:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] Element Quiz Question

The element that my esteemed colleague is referring to is another of the half fractional elements – Teenium-58.5. (Tn), which is most often found in adolescent children.  Any experienced parent will tell you that the words “flammable, toxic, and explosive” fits many teenagers to a T, and it is due to the presence of Tn.  One of the unique properties of Tn is that it is a Lanthanide, but with a variable decay rate, which is not yet fully understood.  This explains why many teens seem to instantly transform from admirable/honorable children to “what planet are you from” in the blink of an eye; variable decay rate.  It also explains why some teens seem to mature early (faster decay rate depleting Tn) and for some the maturing takes decades (slow decay rate).  Tn has two valence states: Tn3+ and Tn6+.
When combined with nitrogen at room temperature, you get either TnN or TnN2.
TnN is found predominantly in teen girls and has the effect of rapidly speeding up speech.  TnN2 is found predominantly in teen boys, causing mumbled speech patterns.  Unfortunately, Teenium also has a dramatic impact on hormone production in both males and females.



Teenium itself is not used in the applications Dave cites, but it’s isotopes are.  One of the isotopes is used in the drugs you get when you have a colonoscopy.  Let me tell you, that drug is great and if they ever make it legal over the counter, I am going to be first in line.  Another of the isotopes is used in fluxes, and would have the J-STD-004 designation of INH0, with the high activity level due to the variable decay rate.  If you find your rework operators talking to fast or slurring their speech, you are using too much flux.  In greases, the isotope can be used, but leads to variable performance – “damn, I just greased that joint last week”.  The remaining isotope “can” be used as a rocket propellant, but is not recommended.  Anyone who has watched the volatility of a teenager knows the unpredictable nature of Teenium and do you really want that in several hundred tons of something that goes Boom?


Ohhh, I can hear you thinking – Doug, teens weren’t always like this, so your theory must be false.  I find your lack of faith disturbing (D.Vader).  True, if you look at teen behavior in the early 20th century, it was much different than later in the 20th century.  Teenium was first isolated by Dr. Heinrich Plum, lead researcher for the Gerber Food Company in the 1930s and 1940s.  It was found that small amounts of Tn made strained carrots and oddly, mashed plums, palatable to infants.
Consequently, other food companies followed suit, but all of this was kept top secret as the military was looking at Teenium as a supplement for soldiers.  The military found that too much Teenium caused insanity and made subjects skulls turn completely red.  Dr. Plum met a sad end when he fell into an industrial pressure cooker filled with peas.  Some claimed he was pushed as part of a massive cover up when the negative effects of Teenium began to surface later, but has never been proven.  While all present baby food companies claim their products are Teenium free, we all know it is there and there is a massive conspiracy to keep it all silent.

Well, the FEQAB has had quite a vacation lately, so lets see what they come up with THIS time....



Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer Rockwell Collins

On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 7:29 AM, David Hillman < [log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> This element is highly flammable, toxic and explosive. This element is 
> the only metal that reacts with nitrogen at room temperature. 
> Commercial applications of this element include medical, fluxes, 
> greases and rocket propellants. Which 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, 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. 
> International Week 71 Steve Gregory Week 72 Bhanu Sood, CALCE Week 72 
> Ed Popielarsk Week 72 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group Week 73 
> Torsten Hagge, Kristronics GmbH Week 74 Greg Munie, IPC Week 75 Doug 
> Pauls, Rockwell Collins Week 76 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems Week 77 
> Robert Kondner, Index Designs Week 77 Bonus Brien Bush, Cirtronics 
> Week 78 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 79 Denny Fritz, SAIC
> Week 80 Brian Ellis
> Week 81 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 81 Jim West, N.S. International
> Week 82 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc
> Week 82 Robert Welch, Moog Components Group Week 83 James Head, 
> Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 84 Mike Fenner Week 85 
> Steve Gregory Week 86 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security 
> Week 87 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik Week 88 Leland Woodall, 
> CSTech Inc.
> Week 89 Avni Selim Ozcukurlu, Aselsan Inc.
> Week 90 Pat Goodyear, PGE
> Week 91 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 92 Greg Munie, IPC
>
> Week 93 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> -It'll be great to have the boys back to help with our TS-16949 audit prep.
> They're gonna be busy reviewing documentation, so they're probably 
> going to be somewhat bored. I'll make it up to them by taking 'em for 
> a few days of saltwater fishing next time around!
>
> Week 93 Mike Fenner
> -assisted with ????
>
> Week 94 John Maxwell
> -assisted with ????
>
> Week 95 ????
> -assisted with ????
>
> Everyone have a safe week.
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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> Data Credit Note: the information in the Element Quizzes is taken from 
> several published sources including The History and Use of Our Earth's 
> Chemical Elements by R. Krebs and Nature's Building Blocks by J. Emsley.
>
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