Just out of curiosity, how are C&K doing with the covid testing? They are crossing borders, from time to time... and Kloumpios travels on foreign passport.
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I already talked to Clumpy and Kloumpios. They are on their way to my cabin. We are going ice fishing. The only work they have to do is bring me another Carlsberg every so often and help clean all the fish we are going to catch this weekend. They even have a 4-day temporary license. It sounds like they don't want to go to Bhanu's house, LOL! But I will make sure they do.
Thanks! That was fun. I agonized over the element Carbon, because although everything is made of carbon, just how would the old timers know what it was? The only way I could see them using it was in the form of soot.
I could envision objects smelted out of the noble metals and tin utensils, etc, and sodium in the form of salt, but...carbon?
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The Element Quiz winner gets the services of our outstanding/amazing gnomes Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week (they have had their vaccination shots and can follow any covid-19 protocols the winner decides).
The Question:
This week the question is going to be a bit more hazy than normal. There are 11 elements that are listed in my references as "known to the ancients" meaning no specific individual is acknowledged as "discovering" the element. The quiz this week is name those 11 elements.
The Answer:
The eleven elements are: Sb, Bi, C, Cu, Au, Fe, Pb, Hg, Ag, S and Sn. There are two elements, Pt and Zn, which were known in ancient times but have modern "discovery" assignments. Three possible ways to sleuth out the answers without using Google - eliminate the elements that are highly reactive or very inert (that eliminates Na, K, etc. and He, Ne, etc.), eliminate the elements that are extremely stable as oxides (that eliminates Al, Si, etc.) or look for the elements abbreviations that have "old" names such as Ag (argentum) or Hg (hydrargyrus). After tabulating the results, Richard Stadem and Bhanu Sood are our winners. Joyce Koo gets honorable mention.
The winner of the Quiz is Richard Stadem and Bhanu Sood will get the assistance of the boys for the week. Please let us know what tasks you have for the boys to keep them busy.
Winners:
Week 1: Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 2: Eddie Hofer, Collins Aerospace
Week 3: John Maxwell
Week 4: Scott Decker, Collins Aerospace
Week 5: Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 6: James Head, PCB Design Engineer and Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 7: Denny Fritz, consultant
Week 8: Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Tech
Week 9: Richard Stadem, GD
Week 10: Scott Decker, Collins Aerospace
Week 11: Eray CANLI, Volocopter GmbH
Week 12: Guy Ramsey
Week 13: Scott Decker, Collins Aerospace
Week 14: Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 15: Graham Naisbitt, Gen3 Systems
Week 16: Dave Bealer, Watch Fire Signs
Week 17: Torsten Hagge, Tronic One
Week 18: Ben Gumpert, Lockheed Martin
Week 19: Bhanu Sood, NASA
Week 20: Russell Kido, Practical Components
Week 21: Tom Carroll, Boeing
Week 22: Bhanu Sood, NASA and Dick Krug, retired
Week 23: Joyce Koo, IDirect
Week 24: Eddie Hofer, Collins Aerospace
Week 25: Dean Vinke, Blue Canyon Tech
Week 26: Richard Stadem, GD and Bhanu Sood, NASA
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