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Here is the Element Quiz Question:
(Note - the Quiz will be going out more on Thursdays than Fridays for
awhile due to my kayaking schedule!)

The Question:
This element is commercially valuable because it produces a long lived
steady stream of beta particles. This element ignites spontaneously with
air and explosively with water so it is typically shipped in mineral oil.
It is used in Geiger counters and as an air molecule removal "getter"  in
vacuum tubes. It is also used as a hydrogenation catalyst in the production
of margarine.  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
Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM
Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems

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 Joyce Koo, IPC International
- . Glad to have at least one helper on my vacation in MO, USA.  ‎Waiting
for new drone I ordered one week ago to arrive in the mail box (literally)
. Clumpy can help me to learn the new skill how to land on the tree top
branch..

Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose
- assisted with ????

Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA
- assisted with ????

Week 28 ????
- assisted with ????


I hope everyone has a awesome week.

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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