Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer: The Question: This element was known to the Egyptians in its mineral form. Alloying 2% of this element with another element produces an alloy that when used in hammering/striking applications will not cause sparks - an especially good characteristic in an explosive gas environment. A compound of this element has been used to produce hydrogen for fuel cells. What is the element is being described? The Answer: The element is Beryllium (Be)! The Egyptians used Be in the form of the gemstone beryl. Copper alloyed with 2% Be produces an alloy that does not spark when hammering. Beryllium was originally known as "glucina" from the Greek for glukos meaning "sweet" as Be has a sweet taste. Unfortunately, the sweet taste will kill you as Be is extremely poisonous. The winner of the weekly element quiz is Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp. and he will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. Joe Russeau was again second this week - sorry Joe, type faster. The Friday Element Quiz Arbitration Board (FEQAB) again disqualified Doug Paul's submission. FEQAB conferred with the Museum of Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo Egypt and there is no record of Pharaoh Sekhemib-Perenma'at in the historical records. FEQAB assumed that Dr. Gottalottasand may have been the only person with knowledge of the tomb thus confirmation of the Pharaoh's existence and Doug's submission will not be possible. Or perhaps the tomb location is somewhere behind the Aswan High Dam. So far Clumpy and Kloumpios have done the following: Past Quiz winners/tasks: Week 1 Dick Krug, Spartan Complex Systems Week 2 Laura Turbini, IRC Week 3 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 3 Pat Goodyear, PGE Week 4 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory Week 5 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 6 Steve Gregory Week 7 Phil Kinner, PVA - assisted with booth duty at a French tradeshow and then helped get an Easter egg hunt ready for 20 kids Week 8 Brian Ellis - the guys arrived this morning, thanks. This is the end of the most prolific part of the growing season and weeds abound. The John Deere's will be very useful to help eliminate them. Kloumpios has said he will prepare a traditional Cypriot ttavas (lamb pieces with veggies with cumin and wild herbs, slow oven-cooked in a special unglazed clay pot - Google it) for the 1 April Cyprus National Day. Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited - My Welsh colleague Jeff, whose desk is next to mine, was on holiday this last week so Clumpy and Kloumpios parked themselves in his seat and spent the week spouting jibes and insults, particularly about English Rugby - it was just like Jeff was still there! I think you could put that down as "providing workplace entertainment and uplifting moral". Week 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. - assisted with a 5S effort - They're scrubbing, replacing old floor tape, and helping to get things in pristine shape. Week 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp - assisted with ???? Everyone have a safe week! Dave Hillman Rockwell Collins ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please contact helpdesk at x2960 or [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________