This technique is the basis of medical MRI scanners.
What is NMR?
Istanbul is the world's only major city located on two continents. Name the two continents.
What are Europe and Asia?
This mathematical constant, approximately 3.14159, is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is pi?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
What is Mexico?
Halloween is celebrated on this date each year.
What is October 31?
This technique measures ions by their cyclotron frequency in a magnetic field.
What is ICR?
This African river flows through more countries than any other river in the world.
What is the Nile?
6.022 x 10^23
What is Avogadro's number?
It's the gas plants absorb.
What is carbon dioxide?
Sushi
What is Japan?
This month-long observance in Islam involves fasting from dawn until sunset.
What is Ramadan?
This mathematical operation converts the signal into a frequency spectrum.
What is a Fourier transform?
This city is the capital of Australia.
What is Canberra?
It's the approximate speed of light in meters per second.
What is 3 x 10^8 m/s?
This element, with atomic number 6, forms the basis of all known life on Earth.
What is carbon?
Kimchi
What is Korea?
This German festival, famous for beer, food, and traditional clothing, is held annually in Munich.
What is Oktoberfest?
In NMR, this time-domain signal is abbreviated FID. FT-ICR records an analogous signal before Fourier transformation.
What is a free induction decay?
This country spans 11 time zones, more than any other country in the world.
Approximately 2.71828, this constant is the base of the natural logarithm.
What is e?
Atoms of the same element with different numbers of neutrons are called these.
What are isotopes?
Croissant
What is France?
Celebrated on November 1-2, this Mexican holiday honors deceased family members with altars, food, and remembrance.
What is Día de los Muertos?
In both NMR and ICR, collecting a longer transient generally improves this property of the resulting spectrum.
What is resolving power (or spectral resolution)?
This mountain range is commonly considered the boundary between Europe and Asia.
What are the Ural Mountains?
This constant, approximately 8.314 J·mol⁻¹·K⁻¹, appears in the ideal gas law PV=nRT
What is the gas constant (R)?
Water can simultaneously exist as a solid, liquid, and gas at a unique combination of temperature and pressure known by this term.
What is the triple point?
Biryani
What is India?
Red envelopes containing money are traditionally given during this holiday celebrated across much of East Asia.
What is Lunar New Year? (or Chinese New Year)