Here is the Element Quiz Question: The Question: This element does not exist in nature and is artificially produced. This element was at the center of the Transfermium Wars! Initially "discovered" in 1968 by a group of Russian scientists, it wasn't until 1996 that the naming of this element was finalized. What element is being described? The Answer: The element is Dubnium (Db)! The naming of elements 103 thru 117 was a huge bunch of politics between an number of global laboratories - primarily JIRN in Dubna Russia and Cal Berkeley in the US. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) finally got global agreement in 1996 on the naming of a number of elements. Element 105 was named Dubnium due to the data from the JINR in Dubna Russia. The winner of the quiz is Bhanu Sood, NASA and he 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 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital Week 1 Ron Feyereisen, SigmaTron Intl. Week 2 Louis Hart, Compunetics Week 3 Mark Kostinovsky, Schlumberger Ltd. Week 3 John Burke Week 4 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics Week 5 No Winner - no correct responses! Week 6 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 7 Keith Calhoun, Sopark Corp Week 7 Ian Fox, Rolls Royce Week 8 Leland Woodall Week 8 David Bealer, SMT Week 9 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 10 Louis Hart, Compunetics Week 11 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 11 Scott Decker, UTAS Week 12 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 13 No Quiz, Week 14 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly Week 15 Bhanu Sood, NASA Week 16 John Maxwell Week 17 Leland Woodall Week 18 Leland Woodall Week 19 Tom Carroll, Boeing Week 20 Robert Kondner Week 21 Tom Brendlinger, ClearMotion Inc. Week 22 Carl Van Wormer, Cipher Engineering LCC Week 23 Juliano Ribeiro, DATACOM Week 24 Gerry Gagnon, FLIR Commercial Systems Week 25 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems - The guys can help me with some thermal profiling work, and maybe I will get them to help out with my "non-day-job" enterprise, setting up a craft distillery. The boys know anything about running a still? The steam lines are run but we need to get the chiller hooked up to the condenser... Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International - . Glad to have at least one helper on my vacation in MO, USA. ā€ˇWaiting for new drone I ordered one week ago to arrive in the mail box (literally) . Clumpy can help me to learn the new skill how to land on the tree top branch.. Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose - assisted with ???? Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA - assisted with ???? I hope everyone has a awesome week. Dave Hillman Rockwell Collins [log in to unmask]