Biochemistry, Material science, Environmental Chemistry
100
The most electronegative element in the periodic table.
What is fluorine?
100
The name of the six-membered ring alkane with the formula C6H12.
What is cyclohexane?
100
This intermolecular force is responsible for water being a liquid at room temperature.
What is hydrogen bonding?
100
This is known as the ideal gas law.
What is PV=nRT?
100
The type of technology where matter is manipulated at the scale of 1-100 nm.
What is nanotechnology?
200
The family of unreactive elements that includes krypton.
What are the noble gases?
200
The alcohol of formula CH3OH.
What is methanol?
200
The number of lone pairs on the oxygen in a water molecule.
What is two?
200
This is known as Boyle's Law.
What is the pressure of a gas is inversely related to the volume at constant temperature?
200
The warming of the atmosphere caused by absorption of solar radiation by molecules such as carbon dioxide. An increase in those molecules may lead to global warming.
What is the greenhouse effect?
300
The metal with a ground state electron configuration of
1s2 2s2 2p6 3s1.
What is sodium?
300
The class of organic compounds containing a COOH group.
What is a carboxylic acid?
300
The dominant attractive force between nonpolar molecules.
What is the London dispersion force?
300
Given three gases, He, N2, and O2, at 25°C, this gas has the fastest molecular speed.
What is helium?
300
The polymer of ethene (ethylene).
What is polyethylene? Also (poly)ethene or polythene).
400
The radioactive alkaline earth metal that decays to give radon gas.
What is radium?
400
The product of the reaction of ethanol and PCC.
What is ethanal (acetaldehyde)?
400
The shape for a molecule such as SF6.
What is octahedral?
400
Given four gases NO, CO2, SO3, and WF6 this gas would effuse at the fastest rate.
What is nitrogen monoxide (nitric oxide, NO)?
400
A term used for a chain of many amino acids joined together through amide groups.
What is a polypeptide?
500
This metal is the commonest lanthanide, and it is the only one to form stable (orange) salts in the +4 oxidation state as well as an oxide MO2.
What is cerium?
500
The name for the class of anion formed at the alpha-carbon when a ketone is treated with a strong base such as LDA.
What is an enolate?
500
The lowest energy antibonding orbital in ethane.
What is pi star (pi*)?
500
This is the name of the law that states the sum of the partial pressures of several gases mixed is the total pressure.