Here is the Element Quiz Question (With the upcoming holiday shutdown by
many OEMs, we are having the Quiz early this week):

The Question:
This element is associated with Wood's metal. This element has wide spread
commercial use in batteries and nuclear reactor control rods. It's
compounds are/were used to make brilliant red, yellow and orange colors in
oil paints. This element is toxic to the human body. 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 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl.
Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd.

Week 3 John Burke
-I will be checking out their failure analysis skill set - onward to the
laboratory! Update: FA skills are good! The boys had a great time in the
lab although things heated up when they thought the laser cutter for
cutting out the samples could be modified for laser tag.

Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
- Drew gave the boys the week off and recommended they head over to Greece
and/or Cyprus for some R&R.

Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
- assisted with ????

Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
- assisted with ????

Week 7 ????
- assisted with ????

Everyone have a wonderful Xmas and New Year holiday!

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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