As our vacation ended yesterday, I told the boys to go ahead and grab a weekend with their wives. They should show up on Monday ready to go. It was a true pleasure sharing some vacation with them.
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> On Jul 27, 2018, at 9:46 AM, David Hillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> 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 Answer:
> The element is Niobium (Nb)! Columbium was the element name originally
> bestowed by Hatchett upon his discovery of the metal in 1801. The name
> reflected that the type specimen of the ore came from America
> (Columbia). German
> chemist Heinrich Rose, who argued that there were two different elements in
> a tantalite sample, and named them after children of Tantalus: niobium
> (from Niobe) and pelopium (from Pelops). Columbium remained in use in
> American journals—the last paper published by American Chemical Society
> with columbium in its title dates from 1953—while niobium was used in
> Europe. To end this confusion, the name niobium was chosen for element 41
> at the 15th Conference of the Union of Chemistry in Amsterdam in 1949. A
> year later this name was officially adopted by the International Union of
> Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) after 100 years of controversy, despite
> the chronological precedence of the name columbium. The super alloy Inconel
> 718, consisting of roughly 50% nickel, 18.6% chromium, 18.5% iron, 5%
> niobium, 3.1% molybdenum, 0.9% titanium, and 0.4% aluminium was used in
> advanced air frame systems for the Gemini program. Another niobium alloy
> was used for the nozzle of the Apollo Service Module.
>
> I was able to observed this naming controversy first hand during my
> undergraduate work as my professors at Iowa State University were very
> adamant about using the name "Columbium" instead of Niobium. My question to
> our European Technet members - did your university professors have the
> opposite bias? Any stories?
>
>
> The winner of the quiz is Leland Woodall and Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> - they will split the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Leland
> and Jerry both submitted correct answer at the same time per the firewall
> time stamp. Doug is on vacation so no half fractional elements for a couple
> of weeks.
>
>
> 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 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp
> - assisted with ????
>
> Week 66 Leland Woodall
> - assisted with ????
>
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
> [log in to unmask]
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