Here is the Element Quiz Question:

The Question:
This element has been called the "most essential element on earth". It has
3 allotrophic forms. Electrical discharges produce one of the element's
allotropes which has a distinctive pungent odor. This element is not
flammable but it does cause other materials to burn rapidly. This element
can share electrons to form covalent bonds or accept electrons to form
ionic bonds. Which element is being described?

The Answer:
The element is Oxygen (O). Oxygen is required to support all plant and
animal life on Earth. It is the 3rd most abundant element in the universe
and makes up nearly half of the Earth's crust. Ozone (O3) is produced
during an electrical discharge. At one point in history, air was believe to
be an elemental substance but Lenardo da Vinci was one of the first
scientists to believe air was comprised of at least two gases.


The winner of the quiz is John Maxwell and he will get the services of
Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Lots of correct answers this week but
John was the fastest response. Also, no Element Quiz next week as the boys
are going to playing sherpa for me at the Missouri Whitewater Championship
competition for me.


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
Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses!
Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp
Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce
Week 8 Leland Woodall
Week 8 David Bealer, SMT
Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics
Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS

Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
- The boys can help me to compare a reverse-engineered old multilayer layout
against the x-rays from the original (no data, no schematics, no gerbers at
all available, but the urgent need for some spare units....), can coil some
dozens RF toroids and last, but not least (if they aren't allergic against
cats) can entertain our tomcats* (who are not amused at the ugly wet wet
thaw here...). I've heard Clumpy and Kloumpios can meanwhile apparate and
disapparate like
Harry Potter, thus there is no need to pick them up from the next airport
(would be MUC)?

Week 13 No Quiz, the boys were helping Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins, with
his IPC Hall of Fame Award

Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
- the boys arrived last Friday, spent the weekend at some carnival events
here around (quite cold and rainy at Tuesday, but with the help of some
bavarian beer and a lot of mulled wine, they came back in a very good
mood........) Later the boys finished the RF toroids from last week,
delivered the stuff to my assembly house, where they were really surprised
about the *poof* apparition in their backyard....., and maybe they will
tomorrow go snowboarding with my big daughter and some friends in Tyrol..
Here in Bavaria we have currently one week school holidays.

Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA
- Clumpy and Kloumpios arrived safely from EU…swearing never to fly discount
airlines again, repeatedly citing experiences that are so eloquently described
in this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6pj3Fdbwng
Soon after landing at Dulles, Clumpy and Kloumpios drove to Goddard
Space Flight
Center where they toured the NASA campus including an up close viewing of
the James Webb Space Telescope which just completed multi dof vibration
testing. Although a clean tent currently covers JWST, Clumpy managed a
selfie before it gets moved into the Goddard acoustics chamber where it
will be exposed to the noise levels that arise from an Ariane 5 launch.
Both Clumpy and Kloumpios totally want to experience what 150 decibel
racket would feel like. The boys are enjoying a warm week here in the DC
area, with the cherry blossoms almost a month ahead of schedule, nobody’s
complaining!

Week 16 John Maxwell
- ????


I hope everyone has a awesome week!

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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