My esteemed colleague seems to be somewhat inconsistent.  He has no
information to create clues, yet disqualifies my answers on similarly
limited information.



My esteemed colleague is referring to another of the Half Fractional (note
the spelling Dean) elements, Spleenium (Sp-115.5).  Spleenium, a p-block
transactanide element, was discovered in the same research effort that
identified Livermorium, between the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
in the United States, which collaborated with the Joint Institute for
Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia.  The naming of the two materials was
actually the result of unprofessional name calling between the two research
groups.  The American team, witnessing the prodigious vodka consumption of
the Russian team, said the Russian’s livers would have a half life about
the same as the first element, and so called it Livermorium.  The Russian
team, witnessing the regular “venting of the spleen” of the excitable
American researchers called the second element Spleenium.  When the IUPAC
met on May 30, they ruled that Spleenium was more likely one of the
isotopes of Livermorium, but the Russian team members with the pertinent
alternative data could not be located.  It was whispered that the CIA made
a late night visit to that team on May 29th.  The IUPAC is known to have an
anti-Russian bias.  Since Spleenium only has a half life of about 59
milliseconds, no one knows what valence state it would be (sorry Bev).



So Dave, what do I win this week?




Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer
Rockwell Collins

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 9:09 AM, David Hillman <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> There is nearly no information on this element from which I can create
> clues so we are going to see who has an up to date Periodic Table at their
> desk. This element has an atomic weight of 293. What is the IUPAC approved
> name of the element as of May, 2012.
>
>
> 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
> Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International
> Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose
> Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA
> Week 28 Leland Woodall
> Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 30 Leland Woodall
> Week 31 Leland Woodall
> Week 32 Steve Gregory
> Week 33 Leland Woodall
>
> Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> - You can have the boys fly into Philadelphia.  They can help load the
> Calibration Certificates into our system and update the Cal date.  After
> that maybe they can help audit work instructions.
>
> Week 35 ????
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week.
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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