Comments the guy who creates "half fractional" elements! Hope everyone successfully solves an issue they have been chasing today and then has a great weekend! Dave On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 11:20 AM, Douglas Pauls < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Just so everyone understands, let me translate Hilmanese: "No record of" > means "I ain't takin' the time to look..." > > > Doug Pauls > Principal Materials and Process Engineer > Rockwell Collins > > On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 3:49 PM, David Hillman <david.hillman@ > rockwellcollins.com> wrote: > >> Here is the Element Quiz Question: >> >> The Question: >> This element is a metal but is not very useful by itself. The combination >> with iron results in a filter for microwave communication systems or the >> combination with aluminum results in a material that can intensify a >> single >> frequency of light. The oxide of this element can be used to produce the >> color red for TV and computer screens. This element played a key role in >> superconductor research. Which element is being described? >> >> The Answer: >> The element is Yttrium (Y)! Combining yttrium with aluminum produces >> garnet >> - YAG- the basis for one of the modern laser systems. Y2O3, yttrium oxide, >> produces the color red in TVs and computer monitors. The University of >> Alabama and University of Houston produced a compound of copper, yttrium >> and barium oxide that was called "compound 1-2-3" in 1987, which was >> superconducting at just 93K - a significant improvement over the current >> knowledge at the time. >> >> >> The winner of the quiz is Leland Woodall and he will get the services of >> Clumpy >> and Kloumpios for the week. >> >> The EQAB reviewed Doug's submission of "tubium" but unfortunately has >> disqualified his response. No record of "gornomite" ore, metallurgical >> treatises of the alloying of aluminum/tubium or a record of the Dr. Duwa >> explosion in 1954 exists in the historical records. Additionally the work >> by UA and UH was in 1987 so the timelines do not sync up. EQAB did find it >> interesting that a aluminum tubium garnet would be called "TAG". >> >> >> 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 >> Week 26 Joyce Koo, IPC International >> Week 26 Todd MacFadden, Bose >> Week 27 Bhanu Sood, NASA >> Week 28 Leland Woodall >> >> Week 29 Mordechai Kirshenbaum >> - You picked a bad time to send the boys to Israel. This weekend is going >> be very hot and very humid in Tel Aviv (92 F and 80% RH) and extremely hot >> inside the country (117 F in the Jordan Valley). I have arranged for them >> a >> hotel in Tel Aviv, near the Mediterranean Sea so the boys will enjoy the >> cool air in the hotel or run 100 yard and enjoy the sea. The weather is >> going to cool down on Monday so they can go out the hotel and do some >> paper >> work. I shall take care that they drink enough water. >> >> Week 30 Leland Woodall >> - It's roasting in NC right now, so the guys and I will have some early >> morning golf this weekend. Next week they can assist me with writing work >> instructions for our rework department. Joy, joy, right? >> >> Week 31 Leland Woodall >> - assisted with ???? >> >> Week 32 Steve Gregory >> - assisted with ???? >> >> Week 33 Leland Woodall >> - assisted with ???? >> >> >> I hope everyone has a awesome week. >> >> Dave Hillman >> Rockwell Collins >> [log in to unmask] >> > >