Hi folks - Here is the Friday Element Quiz Answer: The Question: The pure form of this element is not found in nature. During the early 1800's this element was considered a precious metal and used by royalty. A famous Washington DC monument has a capstone made from this element. What element is being described? The Answer: The element is Aluminum or Aluminium (Al)! Aluminum is one of the most recycled materials in the world primarily because it is cheaper to melt aluminum scrap than extract aluminum from bauxite ore. In the early 1800s aluminum was considered a precious metal and Napoleon had a set of "aluminum silverware". The Washington Monument in Washington DC has a aluminum capstone as part of its lightning grounding grid design and was considered a significant metallurgical accomplishment at that time - the quoted cost of the capstone was $75!. Charles Martin Hall and Paul Louis Toussaint Heroult, who independently discovered the process of extracting aluminum from molten aluminum oxide, had the exact same birth and death days. Aluminum is the 3rd most abundant element found in the earth's crust. 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. The Friday Element Quiz Arbitration Board (FEQAB)reviewed Doug's submission and unfortunately it has been disqualified (shocking!). Doug had stated that Sir APR Speechless had isolated Scepterium in 1815 leading to his demise by King George IV during his knighthood ceremony. FEQAB's review of the historical records shows that King George IV did not ascend to the throne until the death of his father King George III in 1820. King George IV was serving as Prince Regent in 1815. 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 Week 8 Brian Ellis Week 9 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited Week 10 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. Week 11 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik Week 13 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. Week 14 Brian Ellis Week 15 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 16 Steve Gregory Week 17 Phil Kinner Week 18 Ian Braddock, MBDA Systems Week 19 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. Week 20 Denny Fritz Week 21 Amol Kane - the boys can help me with optimization and qualification of Process Equipment like stencil printer and wash. In their spare time they can enjoy the fine TX summer Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell - the boys can stay 2 days with me and as I've always said "a man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking". I'll be training them in stand-up comedy dealing with the dichotomy of Technet humor. Their names and act will be " Grim and Stellar". David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs - since I will be out next week, they can take those 2 days off. Everybody deserves a weekend once in a while. Week 22 Phil Kinner - assisted with ???? Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits - The boys arrived on Saturday as promised. Stayed at our place, StonebridgeFarm, and helped hang high tension electric fence for my daughter's horse boarding operation. Sunday they helped me pull 300 hr maintenance on the tractor, watched Caroline start (break) a horse in training, tipped a few back by the pool, enjoyed a glorious purple sunset, tipped a couple more while telling stories and watching fire flies . . . took it easy. During the week they worked on the in-line cleaner, validating and verifying the PID setups, repaired our high pressure pump for our factory humidification system, which without Steve Gregory's care and attention, had started to leak. Then we kicked around possible ways to keep a 600mm by 450mm by 7.6mm, 60 layer, sequential lamination board, with 33:1 PTH, eight DUT performance board at .4 mm pitch for 1189 Ball BGA survive reflow, measured z axis shift, and designed the attachment; pad, ball diameter and stencil for the interposers. They had to rush off before we finished developing the underfill process needed to stabilize the interposers. Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger - The boys have been working hard and surely deserve some break. I'm fixin' to be nice to the boys and just let them sit on my porch, have a Texas drink, relax and enjoy our weather. This summer's been kinda cold around here: has not even hit 40C (104F) yet. Week 25 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp - assisted with ???? Everyone have a safe week! Dave Hillman Rockwell Collins [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] ______________________________________________________________________