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i think you should move to here: https://www.kitchener.ca/en/things- 
to-do/trillium-woods.aspx
On Oct 5, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Douglas Pauls wrote:

> 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
>> [log in to unmask]
>>

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