The Question:
This element  suffered from a naming controversy for nearly 150 years (1801
-1950) due to the ores from which the element discoverers used to isolate
and extract pure samples.  The folks at Bell Labs found that this element,
combine with tin, exhibited superconductivity in the presence of strong
electric currents and magnetic fields making it the first material to
support the high currents and fields necessary for useful high-power
magnets.  The majority of the world's reserves of this element are found in
Brazil. The overwhelming commercial use of this element is in high grade
steel and super alloys.  A structural alloy using this element was in the
advanced air frame systems for the Gemini program and used for the nozzle
of the Apollo Service Module.  What 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
Week 40 Leland Woodall
Week 41 Tom Carroll
Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 43 Joyce Koo
Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 45 Leland Woodall
Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems
Week 47 Fred Cox, Bluering Stencils
Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose
Week 49 Leland Woodall
Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital
Week 52 Leland Woodall
Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS
Week 54 Leland Woodall
Week 55  Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 56  Mordechai Kirshenbaum
Week 57  Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp
Week 58 Leland Woodall
Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark
Week 60 Leland Woodall
Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 62  Leland Woodall!
Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly
Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 63 Tom Granat

Week 64 George Wenger
-  I couldn't have won at a better time.  I recently purchased a 5 acre lot
and I need to remove lots of trees, stumps and sticker bushes so my builder
can build a new 3 bedroom ranch home. Approximately 10 weeks ago I
herniated a disk in my back and I haven't been able to do a lot of work on
our lot so I have plenty of work for Clumpy and Kloumpios to do this week.

Week 65  Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc
-  Since the boys are probably tired from all the work George made them do,
they can join me for the week at Sunset Beach on the Monterrey Bay. Pure
relaxation on vacation. Maybe they can convince the local raccoons to stay
out of my camp. We’ll have some great games of Cards Against Humanity with
them.

Week 66 ????
- assisted with ????



I hope everyone has a awesome week!
Dave Hillman
Rockwell Collins
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