I'll guess Xenon Dave. Happy Friday. Phil. On 10 Jun 2011, at 13:21, David D. Hillman wrote: > Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question: > > The Question: > > This element has an isotope with a half life of 11 years that is given off > by nuclear reactors and nuclear fuel reprocessing plants. It is used in > certain high speed photographic flash lamps and strobe lights. Eight tons > of this element are "extracted" from the planet each year. This element > was associated with the metric system from 1960 to 1980. What element is > being described? > > > The quiz winner will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the > week. > > So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have: > > 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 > - Were tackling dummys 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 > - assisted with reflow profiling > > Week 17 Brian Ellis, rumored to be retired > - assisted with rewiring the house, had a tractor accident and found > his cousin Kloumpios > > Week 18 Denny Fritz, SAIC > - assisted with tin whisker inspection/examinations > > Week 19 Graham Collins, L3 Communications > - assisted with scraping barnacles, boat paint and boat engine > maintenance > > Week 20 Mark Woolley, PTRL Laboratory Avaya > - assisted with weather observations (70F to snow) and resolving > electrochemical migration failures > > Week 20 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security > - assisted with commercial aircraft galley inspection > > Week 21 Brian Ellis, supposedly retired, and Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, > Space and Security > - assisted with root cause corrective action tasks > - assisted with nothing but catching up with the family > > Week 22 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Inc. > - assisted with metallographic cross-sections and Dye & Pry testing > > Week 23 Bev Christian, RIM > - assisted with a creep corrosion project and the setting up of an oxygen > bomb > > Week 24 XXXX > - assisted with ????? > > 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 16.0 > 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 > 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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