Hi folks - Here is the Element Quiz Question Answer: The Question: This element was one of the first of its "type" to be widely available for commercial use in applications such as dentistry and as an alloying agent in stainless steel. The pure form of this element was not available until 1953. It is added to aluminum power transmission lines to improve conductivity. What element is being described? The Answer: The element is Ytterbium (Yb)! Ytterbium was one of the first of the Rare Earth Elements (REE)to be used in commercial applications. As with many of the REEs, there was significant confusion in separating the individual REEs thus Ytterbium was also called aldebaranium and cassiopeium at one point in history. The salts of ytterbium are paramagnetic. Ytterbium ranks 45 in elemental abundance and 10th in abundance of the 17 REEs. The winner of the weekly element quiz is going to be potentially controversial but here we go anyway. In the past, I have used the response time stamp provided by the Rockwell Firewall which is not always the same as the response time stamp posted on TechNet. This week Eddie Hofer, Rockwell Collins beat Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc by one minute which could have been a result of Eddie being inside the Rockwell Firewall instead of outside the Firewall like Leland. EQQAB has determined that, to be fair, both Eddie and Leland are declared the winners of this week's quiz thus both gentlemen will get the services of Clumpy and Kloumpios for the week. The boys will start at Leland's facility and finish back here in Cedar Rapids doing a task selected by Eddie. And as requested by TechNet membership, the Element Quiz Question will be released on a Thursday/Friday time schedule in the attempt to allow equal opportunity to global EQQ participation. It was noted that technically this week's EEQ was released on Friday for some of the participants. 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 Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Signs Week 22 Phil Kinner Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Week 25 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp Week 26 Paul Reid, PWB Interconnect Solutions Inc Week 27 Greg Munie, IPC Week 28 Steve Gregory Week 29 Gus Trakas, Viasystems Week 29 Steve Creswick Week 30 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group Week 31 Heidi Havelka, Interplex Sunbelt Week 32 Raye Rivera, Canoga Perkins Week 33 Steve Creswick Week 34 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week 35 Don Vischulis Week 36 Greg Munie, IPC Week 37 Larry Dzaugis Week 37 Bonus Question Steve Mikell Week 38 Curt McNamara, Logic PD Week 38 Bonus Question Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell Week 39 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. Week 40 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. Week 40 Ron Feyereisen, Sigmatron Int. Week 41 Steve Gregory - baked a birthday cake with the boys severely stressing a dozen eggs in the process! Week 42 Steve Mikell - assisted with ???? Week 43 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger - I will have to give them a day off as I am travelling (far far far away from my hometown and Schlumberger). They are welcome to Texas and, actually, may provide an assistance consuming nice, thick and juicy Texas steaks for me while I am out of Texas and I can promise that there won't be any snow in Houston, TX upon their arrival. Week 44 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. - assisted with ???? Week 44 Eddie Hofer, Rockwell Collins - 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] ______________________________________________________________________