Antimony Sent from my iPhone On Apr 19, 2013, at 8:38 AM, "David D. Hillman" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Question: > > 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 winner of the weekly element quiz will get the services of Clumpy and > Kloumpios for the week. > > > 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 ???? > - 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] > ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ 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] ______________________________________________________________________