Aah Bev, We now have 3 forward-looking, modern technological powerhouses joining the US—maybe we can bring the rest of the world to our side? Werner -----Original Message----- From: Bev Christian <[log in to unmask]> To: 'TechNet E-Mail Forum' <[log in to unmask]>; 'Werner Engelmaier' <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 7:49 pm Subject: RE: [TN] NTC - Friday Element Quiz - The Answers Mustn't forget Burma and Liberia! Bev "Appendix G - Weights and Measures". The World Factbook. CIA. 2006. https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/appendix/appendi x-g.html. -----Original Message----- From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Werner Engelmaier Sent: Friday, April 23, 2010 7:19 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [TN] NTC - Friday Element Quiz - The Answers Inge, Even though things are not logical, it is hard to change them unless forced. People get comfortable with the most absurd habits. We got 60-second minutes, and 60-minute hours, of which there are 24. Half the world drives on the wrong [sorry-left] side of the road; I am sure you remember that it took an act of your parliament to switch Sweden over [and you guys did it right, over one weekend]. And then, of course, there is the good old USA as the only country [other than South Yemen, as I understand-we sure keep great company] that still measures things according to various body parts of a long since dead king of an empire that no longer exits and which we threw out in a revolution. And then further, of course, is the English language-don't get me wrong, it sure is the richest language there is, but just look at the illogically and absurdly different pronunciations of similarly written words [fish could be spelled 'ghoti']. And what other language has a perfectly understandably sentence when spoken, that cannot be written as spoken. Could go on forever, Skoal Werner -----Original Message----- From: Inge <[log in to unmask]> To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 5:43 pm Subject: Re: [TN] NTC - Friday Element Quiz - The Answers Speaking Greece and Rome, it's remarkable what a heritage mess we are living with/in. Hence we have: Monday : Moon's day Tuesday: keltic god Tiw Wednesday: anglosaxian god Wodan Thursday: nordic god Thor Friday: nordig got Frey Saturday: Saturnus day, roman Sunday: keltic, nordic, a universal mix January: roman god Janus February: febreeum or day of purification Mars: roman war god with same name April: roman aperire or open (spring) May: roman Maia, fertility goddess June: roman Juno, Jupiter's wife July: of course after emperor Julius August: ditto Augustus September: seventh month in roman calender October: eighth month ditto November: ninth month ditto December: tenth ditto Autumn: roman autumnum, time for harvesting Winter: welsh goddess Gwyn Summer: indogermanic zomer Spring: probably latin spira, a warm wind Why on earth do we have all these spoky things Year 2010? Well, who can come with plausible substitutes? Inge -------------------------------------------------- From: "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]> Sent: den 23 April 2010 12:53 To: <[log in to unmask]> Subject: [TN] NTC - Friday Element Quiz - The Answers > Hi folks! Ok, here is the Friday element quiz answers: > > The Question: > I am a ductile BCC metal and one of the few BCC metals that has > no ductile-to-brittle transition. My elemental name is part of Greek > mythology. > > The Answer: Ta - tantalum > > Bonus Points: > Name this metal's greatest attribute and its melting temperature > rank with respect to all of the metals. > > The bonus points answers: Greatest attribute is the tenaciousness of its > oxide and Ta has the 4th highest melting point > > > The winner is Joe Kane! > > And the really odd thing is that Guy Ramsey is awarded the "almost" winner > prize. Tantalum was named after Tantalus, the son of Zeus, because the > difficult efforts to get pure Ta separated from Niobium (Nb) reminded them > of the punishment inflicted on Tantalus by the Greek gods for abusing his > guest privileges at the Greek Gods parties. The daughter of Tantalus was > Niobe - thus the source of the name for the element Niobium (which is what > Guy submitted). > > Joe - you get Doug's desk but I haven't a clue how you will be able to > claim it. > > Everone have a fun and safe weekend > > Dave > > ______________________________________________________________________ > This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. > For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] > ______________________________________________________________________ > > --------------------------------------------------- > Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 > To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in > the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet > To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) > To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to > [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest > Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives > Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 > for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or > 847-615-7100 ext.2815 > ----------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. 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