Doug,



Congrats, you broke through!!!!!d



Regards,

Tom





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Subject: [TN] Element Quiz Answer



 The Question:

This element is the 5th most abundant in the earth's crust but is never found as a free element. This element is essential for human life.

Compounds of this element were well known to the Egyptians, Romans and as early as 7000 BC. The largest commercial use of this element is in making steel and it can be used to store hydrogen gas. The Cardiff Giant hoax is related to this element. What element is being described?



The Answer:

The element is Calcium (Ca)! Calcium compounds were well known and used by many ancient cultures -  from the plaster in the tomb of Tutankhamen to the Romans making lime mortars created by heating limestone. Calcium derives its name from the Latin word calx  meaning "lime". Calcium compounds are used to remove oxides and sulfides during the steel making process. Calcium can be used to store hydrogen gas, as it reacts with hydrogen to form solid calcium hydride, from which the hydrogen can easily be re-extracted. The Cardiff Giant was cut from a block of gypsum from Fort Dodge, Iowa, shipped to New York and "discovered" while digging a well.





The winner of the quiz is Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins and 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 Week 65  Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc.

Week 66  Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp

Week 66 Leland Woodall



Week 67  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems

- While I am on leave, guys can spend whole week trying to tidy my desktop...hope they can finish before I'm back!



Week 68  James Head

- It appears that Clumpy and Kloumpios brought the rain with them after we've had several weeks of dry and hot weather. I've been keeping them busy all week with some Orcad layout work with a brief excursion to take my two year old daughter to Mini Professors to learn about friction whilst constructing a hover craft out of an old CD, balloon and the top of a washing up liquid bottle. I caught them trying to violate the second law of thermodynamics but managed to stop them in time before they could give Louise bad ideas.



Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum

- but I don't want the brothers to travel so far away (they already had been in Israel several months ago)...so they get the week off!



Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins

- assisted with ????







I hope everyone has a awesome week!

Dave Hillman

Rockwell Collins

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