hmm, is the decay of St concentrated in EU to block the competitive  
element of Pb usage by annihilation?
On Nov 10, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Douglas Pauls wrote:

> I know this one, I know this one.  While many of you may give the  
> popular
> (but misguided) answer of silver, the true answer is another of the  
> half
> fractional elements, Senatorium (St 47.5).  This is derived from  
> the Latin
> word, oddly enough, Senator.  It was well known in Roman times that  
> Roman
> citizens who served to long in the Senate often got very dense and  
> were
> essentially dead weight (some things never change) and only good as  
> boat
> anchors.  Senatorium was largely found in Spain in the ancient  
> world as it
> often was co-deposited with silver, but was much denser.  Silver has a
> density of 10.5 grams/cm3.  Senatorium has a density of 35.3 grams/ 
> cm3.
> Senatorium has a shiny lustre when first exposed to light, but quickly
> tarnishes and corrodes, much like some Senators we could name.   
> When the
> ISO currency codes were first proposed in 1977-78, Senatorium was  
> listed
> but too many bureaucrats in Brussels felt self-conscious about the  
> whole
> thing, so it was taken out.  From an industrial standpoint,  
> Senatorium is a
> valuable item (St2CL4) as it facilitates electron flow in a single
> direction.  Useful to prevent currents getting lost.  Most present day
> solders have 0.0000001% Senatorium in them, but the percentage is  
> so small
> it never shows up on data sheets.
>
>
>
> Not much is known about the characteristics of pure Senatorium as  
> it is
> extremely volatile.  The only researcher known to have isolated pure
> Senatorium was Dr. El-Faqaea at the University of Alhambra in Spain in
> 1938.  Dr. El-Faqaea was brilliant but somewhat clumsy.  When  
> conveying the
> small sample to the microscope to view he tripped, dropping the  
> sample.
> The resulting crater was later used as the new Alhambra land fill.   
> Sadly,
> none of this work survived.
>
>
>
> So Dave, what do I win this week?
>
>
> Doug Pauls
> Principal Materials and Process Engineer
> Rockwell Collins
>
> On Fri, Nov 10, 2017 at 7:10 AM, David Hillman <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Here is the Element Quiz Question:
>>
>> The Question:
>> This element is one of our ancient metals and known far back in human
>> history. It can be found in its pure elemental form in nature. The
>> element's name is derived from a Latin word. The Phoenicians at  
>> one time
>> used this element to weight their anchors instead of lead due to its
>> availability from a specific country. This element is one of only  
>> four
>> metals to have an ISO currency code. This element plays a major  
>> role in the
>> electronics industry. 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
>> Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems
>> Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem
>> Week 38 Leland Woodall
>> Week 38 Tom Carroll
>>
>> Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and  
>> Assembly
>> - This is really great! The guys can help me to clear out a flat  
>> (thousands
>> of books :-( ) and, of course, if they have enough of the dust of  
>> about 50
>> years, have fun with our cats again......(no dust,only cat's fur  
>> in red &
>> black)
>>
>> Week 40 Leland Woodall
>> - This week the boys will be helping me with Fall yard work.  If they
>> finish in time, we'll also check out the speckled sea trout run  
>> currently
>> going on in Belhaven, NC.
>>
>> Week 41 ????
>> - assisted with ????
>>
>>
>> I hope everyone has a awesome week.
>>
>> Dave Hillman
>> Rockwell Collins
>> [log in to unmask]
>>