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 silver 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 Answer:
The element is Silver (Ag)! Silver was more expensive than gold in Egypt
until around the fifteenth century BC due to its scarcity. Silver
derives its name from the Latin word "argentum". When the Phoenicians first
came to what is now Spain, they obtained so much silver that they could not
fit it all on their ships, and as a result used silver to weight their
anchors instead of lead. Gold, platinum, palladium and silver are the four
precious metals that have ISO 4217 currency codes (silver is XAG). Silver
is used as surface finished on printed circuit boards and component
terminations.


The winner of the quiz  is Tom Carroll and he will get the services of Clumpy
and Kloumpios for the week.

The EQAB reviewed Doug's response of "Senatorium" and unfortunately had to
disqualify his answer. A review of the ISO currency code historical records
found no information relating to Doug's claims. They also consulted with
Silver Institute on the co-deposition information and  the
Metropolitan Museum of Art on the Phoenician history aspects but found
there to be no records validating those claims. The most disqualifying
information provided in Doug's response is the statement on the
"0.0000001%" constituent level in solder as there is currently no known
technical method of providing a solder assay of that measurement fidelity
(a nano-gram, really?).

While several members of the EQAB felt Doug's political views may have
merit, the EQAB follows the TechNet philosophy of "in data we trust" and
could not validate his response.


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 Tom Carroll
- assisted with ????


I hope everyone has a awesome week.

Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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