Antimony
On Fri, Oct 13, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Stadem, Richard D. <
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> I know copper smelting produces iron in fairly large quantities as well as
> gold and silver in very small quantities. Silver is not used for human
> biological functions but fungi do use it, and silver is a common alloy
> element.
> So my answer is silver.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of David Hillman
> Sent: Friday, October 13, 2017 11:44 AM
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> Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Question
>
> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>
> The Question:
> This element serves no human biological function but fungi do use it. The
> primary source of this element comes as a byproduct of copper refining. Its
> primary commercial use is being a elemental constituent addition to metal
> alloys. A component of this element is used to create acousto-optic
> modulators. The element name is related to the word "earth". Which 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 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
>
> Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
> - The boys showed up, seems they know just where to go with no direction.
> We had one of our test fixtures go down so they spent their week pushing
> buttons. Our keypads must pass minimum 1 million keystrokes. They had a
> blast (thought the beep tones were musical). Clumpy even composed a new
> song or two. Klumpios just laughed at how bad the music was.
> Sorry to see them go but the beer has quit gone missing since they left.
> Tell them thanks next time you see them.
>
> Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
> - The boys can help me get ready for our upcoming ISO audit, I know they
> are experts on that.
>
> Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem
> - I have the perfect project for Klumpy and Cloumpios; they will be
> helping me convert my pontoon into a houseboat! This will be the most fun
> project they ever worked on.
>
> https://i.pinimg.com/736x/3f/82/48/3f8248390bd4f97ef1904f1b6
> 41fdd0d--pontoon-houseboat-houseboat-living.jpg
>
> Week 38 Leland Woodall
> - assisted with ????
>
> Week 38 Tom Carroll
> -assisted with ????
>
> Week 39 ????
> -assisted with ????
>
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week.
>
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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