cerium? Brian On 31/07/2015 16:59, David Hillman wrote: > Here is the Element Quiz Quiz Question: > > The Question: > This element is hygroscopic and tarnishes in the atmosphere. A major > commercial use of this element is as a alloying agent for high strength > steel. It is also used as a yellow pigment to color glass. This element is > a element constituent in the metal used to make lighter flints. Which > element is being described? > > Bonus Question: > This element was called a different name before it was discovered that the > "element" was really a combination of two elements. What was that name? > > > 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 > 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, SAIC > Week 21 Amol Kane > Week 21 Dewey Whittaker, Honeywell > Week 21 David Bealer, Watch Fire Sign > Week 22 Phil Kinner > Week 23 Guy Ramsey, RD Circuits > Week 24 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger > Week 25 Keith Calhoun, SoparkCorp > 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 > Week 42 Steve Mikell > Week 43 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger > Week 44 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 44 Eddie Hofer, Rockwell Collins > Week 45 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 46 Joe Russeau, Precision Analysts Laboratory > Week 47 Phil Bavaro,L-3 Communications > Week 48 Brian Ellis > Week 49 Leland Woodall,CSTech > Week 49 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics > Week 50 Greg Munie, IPC > Week 51 Karen Tellefsen. > Week 52 Greg Munie, IPC > Week 53 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 54 Phil Bavaro, L-3 Com. > Week 55 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. deferred to Richard Stadem, GD, > Week 56 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LLC > Week 57 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc > Week 58 Leland Woodall, CSTech, Inc. > Week 58 Bonus Question Robert Wolfe > Week 59 Greg Munie, IPC > Week 60 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems > Week 61 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited > Week 62 Leland Woodall > Week 62 Brien Bush, Cirtronics > Week 63 Pat Goodyear, PGE > Week 64 Ed Popielarski > Week 65 Jim West, N.S. International > Week 66 Brian Ellis > Week 67 Ravinder Ajmani, HGST > Week 68 Robert Wolfe > Week 69 Joe Russeau, PAL. > Week 69 Leland Woodall, Keihin North America > Week 70 Jim West, N.S. International > Week 71 Steve Gregory > Week 72 Bhanu Sood, CALCE > Week 72 Ed Popielarsk > Week 72 Robert Welch, Moog Component Group > Week 73 Torsten Hagge, Kristronics GmbH > Week 74 Greg Munie, IPC > Week 75 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins > Week 76 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems > Week 77 Robert Kondner, Index Designs > Week 77 Bonus Brien Bush, Cirtronics > Week 78 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 79 Denny Fritz, SAIC > Week 80 Brian Ellis > Week 81 Mordechai Kirshenbaum > Week 81 Jim West, N.S. International > Week 82 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc > Week 82 Robert Welch, Moog Components Group > Week 83 James Head, Crowcon Detection Instruments Limited > Week 84 Mike Fenner > Week 85 Steve Gregory > Week 86 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security > Week 87 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld-Elektronik > Week 88 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 89 Avni Selim Ozcukurlu, Aselsan Inc. > > Week 90 Pat Goodyear, PGE > - the boys arrived safe and sound, but they are complaining that no one > told them they had to carry water in buckets with yokes. They can't use > their tractors because of the security at the plant so it is a 11 mile hike > each way. I can't find enough Dew to keep them happy. > > Week 91 Mordechai Kirshenbaum > - I met the boys at the Ben Gurion Airport yesterday (we were on the same > flight as I was coming back from the States) and put them to work > installing a new Event Detector system. > > Week 92 ???? > -assisted with ???? > > Everyone have a safe week. > > Dave Hillman > Rockwell Collins > [log in to unmask] > Data Credit Note: the information in the Element Quizzes is taken from > several published sources including The History and Use of Our Earth's > Chemical Elements by R. Krebs and Nature's Building Blocks by J. Emsley. > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________________