Osmium. Thanks, Ken > Here is the Element Quiz Question: > > The Question: > This element has 4 allotropes and is a good conductor of heat. It is the > 9th most abundant element in the sun. This element was known to the > ancients. Human beings need 10-18 milligrams of this element daily. > This element is the heaviest element that is produced by the sun's > hydrogen fusion process. Which element is being described? > > Bonus Question: > Provide the Latin name for this element. > > > > The winner of the 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 > Week 91 Mordechai Kirshenbaum > Week 92 Greg Munie, IPC > Week 93 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 93 Mike Fenner > Week 94 John Maxwell > Week 95 Leland Woodall, CSTech Inc. > Week 95 Tom Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 96 Tom > Carroll, Boeing Defense, Space and Security Week 96 bonus Leland Woodall, > CSTech Inc. > Week 97 Dick Krug, Spartan Brooksville LLC Week 98 Juliano Ribeiro, > DATACOM > > Week 99 Torsten Hagge, KRISTRONICS GmbH > -I will take the boys with me to glamorous ELIV congress automotive > electronic Baden-Baden, after meeting several hundreds of developer, > manager and a nice diner with champagne maybe they will win enough money > at the casino to get a flight back! > > Week 100 Denny Fritz, SAIC > -Early this week, they will be working as editors/proofreaders for the > Technology and Supply Chain Roadmaps we are working up for Department of > Defense. Any chance either has a security clearance? If so, we may give > them a peak at the "Trusted Source" program we are working for circuit > board design, fabrication and assembly. All this is under the DoD > Executive Agent for Printed Circuits and Electronic Interconnects at > Crane Navy Base. Later in the week, we will get them a tour of some of > the biggest and best deposits of calcium in the US - the structural > limestone mines just south of Crane here in Indiana. Can you say - > Pentagon or Empire State Building? And, with freeze warning on Sunday AM, > and falling leaves - I can put their John Deere to work at home this > weekend. > > Week 101 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger > -I usually try to give the guys some rest but not this time. They will be > helping me with cleaning up the mess that Patricia's tail (Houston > received > 9.38 in (238 mm) of rain during a 24-hour span from October 24–25) > created in my little back yard. Nothing serious though. So we should be > done in a few hours and then they can relax for the rest of the day. > > Week 102 ???? > - 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. 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