My esteemed colleague is referring to another of the half fractional
elements, Trillium-90.5.  The UKAEA was not able to separate out the
Trillium (symbol Tr) with its standard 11 stage process until Dr. Bernard
Farnswarth, NPL Skinburness, and a distant relative of Graham Naisbitt, was
able to adapt a failed carnival ride as a high end centrifuge.  The main
difficulty was in separating it out from Protactinium, which has many of
the same properties as Trillium, so many will incorrectly guess that
compound.  Sadly, Dr. Farnswarth came to a bad end.  In a failure to use
proper lock-out/tag-out procedures, he was working on the centrifuge when
one of his assistants turned on the centrifuge, hurling Dr. Farnswarth into
the Irish Sea, where he was not seen again.  ORNL has been able to use its
processes to refine Trillium and has so named the material for the high
incidence of the Trillium flower (Trillium decumbens) in Tennessee.  While
there is some Trillium in uranite ores, it is believed that most of the
Earth’s supply of this element came from the  Chicxulub, Popigai, and
Manicouagan meteor strikes where the Trillium was widely distributed in the
debris cloud from the impact.  It is believed by Dr. N'DO Rodrigue,
University of Gabon, that Dinosaurs were highly allergic to Trillium, thus
causing their extinction.  Paleoceanographers use the fine layer of
Trillium in sedimentary layers to defined events before and after the
Cretaceous period.  It has been theorized that 1 part per trillion Trillium
(say that 3 times fast) is the secret ingredient in Kyzen's cleaning
chemistries, but I have not been able to confirm this as they have not yet
made an IC or GC column that will handle this material.


So, Dave, what do I win this week.

Doug Pauls
Principal Materials and Process Engineer
Rockwell Collins


On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:25 AM David Hillman <
[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> The Question:
> Concentrations of this element in the Earth's crust are typically a few
> parts per trillion, but may reach up to a few parts per million in some
> uraninite ore deposits.In 1961, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority
> (UKAEA) produced 127 grams of an isotope of this element by processing 60
> tonnes of nuclear waste material in a 12-stage process, at a cost of about
> 500,000 USD and for many years, this was the world's only significant
> supply.  Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US provides this
> element at a cost of about 280 USD/gram. One of the few commercial
> applications for this element is a tracer in geology and paleoceanography.
> What element is being described?
>
>
> The winner of the quiz will share 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
> Week 68  James Head
> Week 69  Mordechai Kirshenbaum
> Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins
> Week 71  Eray Canli,  ANDAR Electromechanical Systems
> Week 72  Russell Kido, Practical Components
>
> Week 73 Denny Friz
> - This week, I need different tasks from Clumpy and Kloumpios.  I think you
> said both can drive tractors - which one is best?  Or, which one can drive
> one of those wonderful red International tractors instead of the worthless
> green John Deeres.  OOPS, John Deere does a lot of electronics and is a big
> wheel in IPC.  Restated - which one can drive a crummy old red
> International without electronics with a 6 volt battery instead of one of
> those marvelous new John Deeres?  That one will be disking, spreading
> fertilizer, and planting seed for the hay crop on our farm next summer. The
> agriculturally challenged one will be helping me with reports on "the
> status of the US Defense Electronics Industry in support of Paragraph 845
> of the 2019 Defense Authorization Act.  All three Defense in DC, Executive
> Agent  at Navy Crane, and IPC are working together on a report due in
> January 2019.   Recently retired from SAIC/Crane - I am now playing on the
> IPC team.
>
> Week 74 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> - I would defer to Leland if he needs the help.  Getting very cold here and
> supposed to rain often.  The boys probably would enjoy some warmth for a
> week.  Fun to drag out some little snip of information stored decades ago.
> Read up on Wilhelm again!
>
> Week 74 Leland Woodall
> - The weather here is pretty nice, so the guys can assist with generating
> the Quality reports for September for a day or so, and then perform some
> outside work around the house.  I'll try to take it easy on 'em!
>
> Week 75 ????
> - assisted with ????
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Rockwell Collins
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