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Comments the guy who creates "half fractional" elements!

Hope everyone successfully solves an issue they have been chasing today and
then has a great weekend!

Dave

On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Douglas Pauls <
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> Just so everyone understands, let me translate Hilmanese:  "No record of"
> means "I ain't takin' the time to look..."
>
>
> Doug Pauls
> Principal Materials and Process Engineer
> Rockwell Collins
>
> On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:49 PM, David Hillman <david.hillman@
> rockwellcollins.com> wrote:
>
>> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>>
>> The Question:
>> This element is a metal but is not very useful by itself. The combination
>> with iron results in a filter for microwave communication systems or the
>> combination with aluminum results in a material that can intensify a
>> single
>> frequency of light. The oxide of this element can be used to produce the
>> color red for TV and computer screens. This element played a key role in
>> superconductor research. Which element is being described?
>>
>> The Answer:
>> The element is Yttrium (Y)! Combining yttrium with aluminum produces
>> garnet
>> - YAG- the basis for one of the modern laser systems. Y2O3, yttrium oxide,
>> produces the color red in TVs and computer monitors. The University of
>> Alabama and University of Houston produced a compound of copper, yttrium
>> and barium oxide that was called "compound 1-2-3" in 1987, which was
>> superconducting at just 93K - a significant improvement over the current
>> knowledge at the time.
>>
>>
>> The winner of the quiz is Leland Woodall and he will get the services of
>> Clumpy
>> and Kloumpios for the week.
>>
>> The EQAB reviewed Doug's submission of "tubium" but unfortunately has
>> disqualified his response. No record of "gornomite" ore, metallurgical
>> treatises of the alloying of aluminum/tubium or a record of the Dr. Duwa
>> explosion in 1954 exists in the historical records. Additionally the work
>> by UA and UH was in 1987 so the timelines do not sync up. EQAB did find it
>> interesting that a aluminum tubium garnet would be called "TAG".
>>
>>
>> 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
>> Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International
>> Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose
>> Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA
>> Week 28 Leland Woodall
>>
>> Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
>> - You picked a bad time to send the boys to Israel. This weekend is going
>> be very hot and very humid in Tel Aviv (92 F and 80% RH) and extremely hot
>> inside the country (117 F in the Jordan Valley). I have arranged for them
>> a
>> hotel in Tel Aviv, near the Mediterranean Sea so the boys will enjoy the
>> cool air in the hotel or run 100 yard and enjoy the sea. The weather is
>> going to cool down on Monday so they can go out the hotel and do some
>> paper
>> work. I shall take care that they drink enough water.
>>
>> Week 30 Leland Woodall
>> - It's roasting in NC right now, so the guys and I will have some early
>> morning golf this weekend.  Next week they can assist me with writing work
>> instructions for our rework department.  Joy, joy, right?
>>
>> Week 31 Leland Woodall
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>> Week 32 Steve Gregory
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>> Week 33 Leland Woodall
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>>
>> I hope everyone has a awesome week.
>>
>> Dave Hillman
>> Rockwell Collins
>> [log in to unmask]
>>
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