Platinum On 3/17/2011 6:28 AM, David D. Hillman wrote: > Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question (a day early): > > The Question: > > This element has low ductility and high reactivity to air resulting in > limited industrial uses. The largest use of this element is in the > electronics industry in resistors and in hybrid integrated circuits. This > element is used as a catalyst in the petroleum refining industry. > Additions of this element to Titanium piping result in a significant > corrosion resistance improvement for sour gas oil well applications. What > element is being described? > > > The winner of this week's quiz will get to put Clumpy and his cousin > Kloumpios to work. Both of them safely arrived here in Iowa after their > "boat" ride across the Atlantic, up the Mississippi and finally up the > Cedar River to Cedar Rapids. The Army Corp of Engineers didn't quite know > what to make of their boat as they negotiated thru the Mississippi lock > and dam system. > > So far Clumpy has: > > Week 1 Lamar Young, SCS Coatings > - accomplished nothing (drank lots of coffee) > > Week 2 Bev Christian, RIM > - conducted REACH material testing > > Week 3 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc. > - Solderability testing and mowed the lawn > > Week 4 Ian Fox, Goodrich > - had an epic journey of travel > > Week 4 Gary Ferrari, Garrick Global > - unknown > > Week 5 Fredrick Miller, Astrolab > - unknown > > Week 6 David Nelson, Raytheon > - Was a tackling dummy for Dallas Cowboys > > Week 7 Graham Collins, L3 Communications > - Cleaned gutters and painted window trim > > Week 8 Bill Noel, ITT Geospatial Systems Division > - unknown > > Week 9 Steve Gregory of RD Circuits > - unknown > > Week 10 David Bealer of Watchfire Signs > - descaled the in-line wash machine! Ouch! > > Week 11 Dick Krug of Sparton Corporation > - assisted with AS9100 quality management systems requirements audit > > Week 12 Steve Creswick of Balanced Enterprise Solutions > - Acted as Steve's "go fer" due to a broken leg! > > Week 13 Gebhard Neifer, Delphi > - conducted a plasma pre treatment Taguchi DOE for a sealing process > > Week 14 Bev Christian, RIM > - assisted with a tin pest investigation/test > > Week 15 Bev Christian, RIM > - assisted Bev shoveling snow > > Week 16 David Bealer of Waatchfire Signs > - unknown > > Week 17 Brian Ellis, rumored to be retired > - assisted with rewiring the house, had a tractor accident and found his > cousin Kloumpios > > > Dave Hillman > Rockwell Collins > [log in to unmask] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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.aspx?Pageid=E-mail-Forums 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. 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.aspx?Pageid=E-mail-Forums for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------