i think you should move to here: https://www.kitchener.ca/en/things- to-do/trillium-woods.aspx On Oct 5, 2018, at 8:50 AM, Douglas Pauls wrote: > My esteemed colleague is referring to another of the half fractional > elements, Trillium-90.5. The UKAEA was not able to separate out the > Trillium (symbol Tr) with its standard 11 stage process until Dr. > Bernard > Farnswarth, NPL Skinburness, and a distant relative of Graham > Naisbitt, was > able to adapt a failed carnival ride as a high end centrifuge. The > main > difficulty was in separating it out from Protactinium, which has > many of > the same properties as Trillium, so many will incorrectly guess that > compound. Sadly, Dr. Farnswarth came to a bad end. In a failure > to use > proper lock-out/tag-out procedures, he was working on the > centrifuge when > one of his assistants turned on the centrifuge, hurling Dr. > Farnswarth into > the Irish Sea, where he was not seen again. ORNL has been able to > use its > processes to refine Trillium and has so named the material for the > high > incidence of the Trillium flower (Trillium decumbens) in > Tennessee. While > there is some Trillium in uranite ores, it is believed that most of > the > Earth’s supply of this element came from the Chicxulub, Popigai, and > Manicouagan meteor strikes where the Trillium was widely > distributed in the > debris cloud from the impact. It is believed by Dr. N'DO Rodrigue, > University of Gabon, that Dinosaurs were highly allergic to > Trillium, thus > causing their extinction. Paleoceanographers use the fine layer of > Trillium in sedimentary layers to defined events before and after the > Cretaceous period. It has been theorized that 1 part per trillion > Trillium > (say that 3 times fast) is the secret ingredient in Kyzen's cleaning > chemistries, but I have not been able to confirm this as they have > not yet > made an IC or GC column that will handle this material. > > > So, Dave, what do I win this week. > > Doug Pauls > Principal Materials and Process Engineer > Rockwell Collins > > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 6:25 AM David Hillman < > [log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> The Question: >> Concentrations of this element in the Earth's crust are typically >> a few >> parts per trillion, but may reach up to a few parts per million in >> some >> uraninite ore deposits.In 1961, the United Kingdom Atomic Energy >> Authority >> (UKAEA) produced 127 grams of an isotope of this element by >> processing 60 >> tonnes of nuclear waste material in a 12-stage process, at a cost >> of about >> 500,000 USD and for many years, this was the world's only significant >> supply. Today, Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US provides this >> element at a cost of about 280 USD/gram. One of the few commercial >> applications for this element is a tracer in geology and >> paleoceanography. >> What element is being described? >> >> >> The winner of the quiz will share 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 >> Week 69 Mordechai Kirshenbaum >> Week 70 Doug Pauls, Rockwell Collins >> Week 71 Eray Canli, ANDAR Electromechanical Systems >> Week 72 Russell Kido, Practical Components >> >> Week 73 Denny Friz >> - This week, I need different tasks from Clumpy and Kloumpios. I >> think you >> said both can drive tractors - which one is best? Or, which one >> can drive >> one of those wonderful red International tractors instead of the >> worthless >> green John Deeres. OOPS, John Deere does a lot of electronics and >> is a big >> wheel in IPC. Restated - which one can drive a crummy old red >> International without electronics with a 6 volt battery instead of >> one of >> those marvelous new John Deeres? That one will be disking, spreading >> fertilizer, and planting seed for the hay crop on our farm next >> summer. The >> agriculturally challenged one will be helping me with reports on "the >> status of the US Defense Electronics Industry in support of >> Paragraph 845 >> of the 2019 Defense Authorization Act. All three Defense in DC, >> Executive >> Agent at Navy Crane, and IPC are working together on a report due in >> January 2019. Recently retired from SAIC/Crane - I am now >> playing on the >> IPC team. >> >> Week 74 Drew Meyer, Benchmark Electronics >> - I would defer to Leland if he needs the help. Getting very cold >> here and >> supposed to rain often. The boys probably would enjoy some warmth >> for a >> week. Fun to drag out some little snip of information stored >> decades ago. >> Read up on Wilhelm again! >> >> Week 74 Leland Woodall >> - The weather here is pretty nice, so the guys can assist with >> generating >> the Quality reports for September for a day or so, and then >> perform some >> outside work around the house. I'll try to take it easy on 'em! >> >> Week 75 ???? >> - assisted with ???? >> >> I hope everyone has a awesome week! >> Dave Hillman >> Rockwell Collins >> [log in to unmask] >>