Reactor Design
Enzyme Technology
Plastic Technology
Biosignalling
Failed Technologies
100

It is a fixed bed reactor with indirect heat exchange suitable for endothermic and exothermic catalytic reactions.

What is Linde isothermal reactor?

100

This enzyme reduces the bitter taste of the high protein materials.

What is protease?

100

Chemical additives for making plastics or rubbers softer and more flexible.

What are plasticisers?

100

This acts as an intercellular second messenger in cell signalling and lipid signalling.

What is Inositol triphosphate?

100

Available between 1996 and 1999, was a hit with the small number of customers who got to lease one(They were only leased, not sold, and less than 2500 were made). But GM ultimately decided that electric vehicles were too niche, controversially scrapping the program and sending most EV- 1s to the crushers.

What is GM EV-1?

200

This setup is used to study a non-catalytic homogenous reaction under isothermal conditions. The set-up consists of a reactor fitted in a constant temperature water bath.

What is isothermal batch reactor?

200

This enzyme helps in the liquefaction of starch to dextrin.

What is amylase?

200

The ability of a deformed material body to return to its original shape and size when the forces causing the deformation are removed.

What is elasticity?

200

This is a process when a visual signal reaches receptors in the retina of the eye, the initial phase involves the absorption of physical energy by receptors.

What is Reception?

200

The company played a vital role in the way tech develops through the anti-trust lawsuit it won against Microsoft, a decision with implications that still influence the industry today.

What is Netscape?

300

It is a batch reactor equipped with an impeller or other mixing device to provide efficient mixing.

What is continuous stirred tank reactor(CSTR)?

300

A catalyses the hydrolysis of β-1-4 linkages between N-acetyl muramic acid and N-acetyl glucosamine in peptidoglycan.

What is Lysozyme?

300

The process of chilling a liquid below its freezing point, without it becoming solid.

What is supercooling?

300

A drug that is used to terminate early pregnancies.

What is RU486?

300

It was the place where "web stars are born" and "music and film careers are launched", as TIME wrote we named it one of the 50 best websites of 2006. and it certainly helped popularize the basic concept of social media and online profiles.

What is MySpace?

400

These are used to model the chemical transformation of compounds as they are transported in systems resembling "pipes".(Double Jeopardy) 

What is plug flow reactor model(PFR)?

400

This enzyme is responsible for causing vitamin B deficiency disease beriberi.

What is the Thiaminase?

400

The commercial name for the polymer was obtained by the polymerization of phenol and formaldehyde.

What is bakelite?

400

Migration of cancerous cells from the site of origin to other part of the body forming secondary tumors.

What is Metastasis?

400
At a time when the idea of retrieving answers to questions by typing a question into a computer seemed like magic, it thrived. Founded in 1995, it set the stage for Google.

What is Alta Vista?

500

These are one of the most common reactors used in the chemical industry due to their high conversion rate per catalyst weight compared to other catalytic reactors.

What is a plug bed reactor(PBR)?

500

This is a microporous, three-dimensional crystalline solids that remove both the temporary and permanent hardness of the water.

What is Zeolite?

500

This white solid is a trimer of cyanamide, with a 1,3,5-triazine skeleton. Like cyanamide, it contains 67% nitrogen by mass, and its derivatives have fire retardant properties due to its release of nitrogen gas when burned or charred.

What is melamine?

500

The first  amino group entering into the Urea cycle.

What is Carbamoyl phosphate?

500

Long ago, it was one of the best options around for getting driving directions before you set off on your trip.(Double Jeopardy)

What is MapQuest?

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