My understanding is that the flow of electrons is actually electron/hole recombination that occurs at the speed of light.
It's just that some of us are a little bit faster than that, I guess.
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Me too, just for a moment I thought the quantum computer I'm knocking together in my shed had worked!
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Regards
Mike
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Sorry Richard - I don't control the flow of electrons thru your servers.
But what fun we could have if we did have that power!
Dave
On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 7:03 AM, Stadem, Richard D. < [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I saw 4 email answers, all Boron, and then the email with the question.
> That's no fun.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman
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> Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Question
>
> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> This element's name is derived from an Arabic word. It is an excellent
> neutron absorber and is a dopant in silicon transistor chips as a
> current flow regulator. A hydride of this element finds application as
> a rocket fuel booster. It is used in cosmetics, soaps and adhesives.
> Which element is being described?
>
>
> The winner of the 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.
> Week 93 Mike Fenner
> Week 94 John Maxwell
> Week 95 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 95 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 96 Tom
> Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 96 bonus Leland
> Woodall, CSTech Inc.
> Week 97 Dick Krug, Spartan Brooksville LLC Week 98 Juliano Ribeiro,
> DATACOM Week 99 Torsten Hagge, KRISTRONICS GmbH
>
> Week 100 Denny Fritz, SAIC
> -Early this week, they will be working as editors/proofreaders for the
> Technology and Supply Chain Roadmaps we are working up for Department
> of Defense. Any chance either has a security clearance? If so, we
> may give them a peak at the "Trusted Source" program we are working for circuit
> board design, fabrication and assembly. All this is under the DoD
> Executive Agent for Printed Circuits and Electronic Interconnects at
> Crane Navy Base. Later in the week, we will get them a tour of some
> of the biggest and best deposits of calcium in the US - the structural
> limestone mines just south of Crane here in Indiana. Can you say -
> Pentagon or Empire State Building? And, with freeze warning on Sunday
> AM, and falling leaves - I can put their John Deere to work at home this weekend.
>
> Week 101 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger -I usually try to give the
> guys some rest but not this time. They will be helping me with
> cleaning up the mess that Patricia's tail (Houston
received
> 9.38 in (238 mm) of rain during a 24-hour span from October 24-25)
> created in my little back yard. Nothing serious though. So we should
> be done in a few hours and then they can relax for the rest of the day
>
> Week 102 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security
> - The boys that they can join me next week in Perdido Key, FL and help
> me with my golf game. I going to be on vacation so the boys can relax
> on the beach or come with me and help me get that elusive Hole-in-One
> that I've been trying to bag for the last 40 years!!!
>
> Week 102 Robert Welch, Moog Components Group
> - assisted with ????
>
> Week 102 Bonus Question David Bealer, Watch Fire Sign
> - 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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