Frank,
I like your thoughts on having Doug's knowledge published in a book. What say you Doug?
My fear is that unless carefully thought out, your statement regarding it as a reference for failure, it could be construed as an Irish publication, "Murphy's Law"?
Perhaps Doug, you should be sure to title the book as "Doug's Law" just to ensure proper acknowledgment. (Perhaps a ghost writer is safer too?)
Additionally, your comment regarding "if it's published, it must be right" may not be entirely true, I know of many documents I find in Google are not always published...
Have a great weekend everyone...
Oh... Doug and Dave, what do you think, is Collins Aerospace really taking over the TechNet forums, I mean really, if it's the Collins.com "domain" what else would you expect...
So many forums, so little time....
Later...
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From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Frank Kimmey
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2018 11:14 AM
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Subject: Re: [TN] [External] [TN] Element Quiz Question
Doug,
As usual, I expect Dave to disqualify your incredible answer (truly a shame).
Are you planning on publishing your incredible knowledge of half elements?
Those of us not so well educated would truly appreciate the knowledge you share.
Also, this might get the FEQAB to rethink their rapid DQ's of perfectly good answers, explanations and references.
We all know, if it is published , it must be right.
I personally think it would make a great reference for when trying to explain how some thing just happen to fail.
Thanks,
FNK
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My esteemed colleague is referring to another of the half fractional elements – StableGon (Sl-18.5). As the name and atomic number imply, it is a near-noble gas and non-reactive in nature. Therefore, it often acts similarly to Argon. Only a small amount (in the ppt range) of Sl is needed in plastics to make it a more effective moisture barrier. Small amounts are additives for tubing used for GC-MS detectors or similar instruments, but can tie up oxygen in those analyses, so caution is needed. The IUPAC has struggled with the naming of this half fraction. Can’t be Sg as it conflicts with Seaborgium. Can’t be St. Can’t be Sa. Originally, it was labeled as S, but that conflicted with sulfur. But, in a closed-door and undocumented (I have my sources) session, the IUPAC did settle on Sl-18.5.
Some of the spectral data from the most recent Mars probe shows the spectral lines for StableGon, which may explain the low oxygen content on Mars.
StableGon was first isolated by Dr. Fritz Arbuckle, University of Montana – Hogeland in 1923. In working with various gas mixtures found in mine shafts, he found that his sandwiches seemed to last forever after being exposed to the StableGon gas. Sadly, Dr. Arbuckle came to an unfortunate end. As it turns out, StableGon can turn toxic when it comes into contact with baloney. He died a very painful death. For this reason, Congress has decreed that no StableGon come within 100 miles of Washington DC. God knows what would happen with that much Baloney.
So, Dave, what do I win this week?
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On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 10:45 AM David Hillman <[log in to unmask]>
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> The Question:
> This element is extremely stable and almost completely non-reactive
> which is one reason for its name. Until 1957, the symbol for this
> element was a single letter. The atmosphere of Mars contains this
> element. This element is used to displace oxygen- and
> moisture-containing air in packaging material to extend the
> shelf-lives of the contents. This element is widely used in a number
> of spectroscopy applications (i.e. ICP, FIB, etc.). Name the element
> being described?
>
> The winner of the quiz will get the services of Clumpy & 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 Week 74 Drew
> Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 74 Leland Woodall Week 75 Mordechai
> Kirshenbaum Week 76 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 76 Eray Canli, ANDAR
> Electromechanical Systems
>
> Week 77 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics
> - The boys are right on time. Decapsulation of two custom ASICs
> potted in epoxy, lots of prep work and then on to the 576 Tek curve
> tracer to characterize all characteristics of 8 diodes looking for a
> potential walking wounded.
>
> Week 78 David Bealer, WatchFire Signs
> - The boys can help with finish up a much needed machine
> qualification, and then can go home for the long Thanksgiving weekend.
>
> Week 79 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics
> - the boys will help on a 1kV/2kA PCB design, after convinced the
> customer, they will visit the Flensburg Christmas market and get several "Punsch"
> with shot (hot red wine with spices and rum) as Flensburg has long
> history of about 280 years rum manufacturing...
>
> Week 80 ????
> - assisted with ????
>
>
> I hope everyone has a awesome week!
> Dave Hillman
> Collins Aerospace
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