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Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Question

Here is the Element Quiz Question:

The Question:
This element was known to the ancients in Egypt and the Middle East for making blue glass. This element was commonly mistaken for bismuth. This element is used in the manufacture of vitamin B12.  You could say that Clumpy's and Kloumpios's relatives are to blame for the origin of this element's name. An additive of this element was used to maintain the foam head on beer for a number of years until it was shown to cause medical issues. What 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
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 Week 13 No Quiz, Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 16 John Maxwell Week 17 Leland Woodall Week 18 Leland Woodall Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 20 Robert Kondner Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc.


Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC
- After feeding them all weekend, I put the boys to work soldering the battery leads (Pb-Free, of course) onto ShortSniffer boards.  They were so efficient with those little fingers twisting the wire ends, they got the next 6-months production done in 4.5 hours!  I gave our minimum wage technician a pink slip, telling her to re-apply in September. They had big smiles on their faces as I put them on a plane to Disney World, giving them each 3 all-day passes (after warning them to stay away from Snow White).
They should be well rested for the next Element Quiz winner.

Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
- assisted with ????

Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems
- assisted with ????

Week 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
- The guys can help me with some thermal profiling work, and maybe I will get them to help out with my "non-day-job" enterprise, setting up a craft distillery.  The boys know anything about running a still?  The steam lines are run but we need to get the chiller hooked up to the condenser...

Week 26 ????
- assisted ????


I hope everyone has a awesome week!

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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