Strontium? On 9/13/18, David Hillman <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > The Question: > This element is highly radioactive and has been called "uranium's > daughter". This element does exist in nature but due to its very short > half life is very rare. This element was associated with the Manhattan > Project and the 1970s Soviet moon rovers. This element is the only alpha > emitting byproduct material available, as a Nuclear Regulatory Commission > Exempt Quantity, which may be held without a radioactive material license. > What > element is being described? > > > 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 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 > Week 30 Leland Woodall > Week 31 Leland Woodall > Week 32 Steve Gregory > Week 33 Leland Woodall > Week 34 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp > Week 35 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc > Week 36 Graham Collins, Sunsel Systems > Week 37 Richard "Dean" Stadem > Week 38 Leland Woodall > Week 38 Tom Carroll > Week 39 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly > Week 40 Leland Woodall > Week 41 Tom Carroll > Week 42 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly > Week 43 Joyce Koo > Week 44 Russell Kido, Practical Components > Week 45 Leland Woodall > Week 45 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc > Week 46 Ian Fox, Rolls-Royce Control Systems > Week 47 Fred Cox, Bluering Stencils > Week 48 Tom Carroll, Boeing > Week 49 Todd MacFadden, Bose > Week 49 Leland Woodall > Week 50 Russell Kido, Practical Components > Week 51 Ravinder Ajmani, Western Digital > Week 52 Leland Woodall > Week 53 Scott Decker, UTAS > Week 54 Leland Woodall > Week 55 Tom Carroll, Boeing > Week 56 Mordechai Kirshenbaum > Week 57 Steve Herring, Pennatronics Corp > Week 58 Leland Woodall > Week 59 Drew Meyer, Benchmark > Week 60 Leland Woodall > Week 61 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly > Week 62 Leland Woodall! > Week 63 Matthias Mansfeld, Mansfeld Elektronik PCB Design and Assembly > Week 63 Tom Carroll, Boeing > Week 63 Tom Granat > Week 64 George Wenger > Week 65 Frank Kimmey, VeriFone Inc. > Week 66 Jerry Dengler, Pergamon Corp > Week 66 Leland Woodall > Week 67 Eray Canli, ANDAR Electromechanical Systems > > Week 68 James Head > - It appears that Clumpy and Kloumpios brought the rain with them after > we've had several weeks of dry and hot weather. I've been keeping them busy > all week with some Orcad layout work with a brief excursion to take my two > year old daughter to Mini Professors to learn about friction whilst > constructing a hover craft out of an old CD, balloon and the top of a > washing up liquid bottle. I caught them trying to violate the second law of > thermodynamics but managed to stop them in time before they could give > Louise bad ideas. > > Week 69 Mordechai Kirshenbaum > - but I don't want the brothers to travel so far away (they already had > been in Israel several months ago)...so they get the week off! > > Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins > - The boys will be glad to be home and see the wives and family for a long > weekend. They can help me with an 86000 lines of data statistical > analysis, but then they get the weekend off. > > Week 71 Eray Canli, ANDAR Electromechanical Systems > - Boys can leave as soon as we finish forging three Damascus steel knives > together, from a Vanadium doped leaf spring of an old truck...and in > addition to their knives, I'll buy them cold beer for their effort and > sweat! > > Week 72 ???? > - assisted with ???? > > > > I hope everyone has a awesome week! > Dave Hillman > Rockwell Collins > [log in to unmask] > -- Denny Fritz Consultant 812 584 2687