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Subject: [TN] Fwd: Element Quiz Question



Let's try this again - seems TechNet is having issues



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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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