In Half Tops (2 words).
What is Flash Point?
The idea that money available at the present time is worth more than the same amount in the future.
What is the time value of money?
Method used to separate solids from fluids by interposing a medium through which only the fluid can pass.
What is filtration?
This popular astrophysicist, author of “Death By Black Hole” and host of TV’s “Cosmos,” earned a BA in Physics from Harvard University in 1980.
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
The United States purchased Alaska from this country.
What is Russia?
Fuel Treat (2 words).
What is Fault Tree?
This happens when vapor enters the suction of a pump.
What is cavitation?
In liquid extraction the two phases are commonly called the extract phase and this.
What is the Raffinate phase?
Word that describes a theory in theoretical physics, a family of instruments in an orchestra, and cheese that you can easily pull apart.
What is string?
This leader came to power in Cuba after the Cuban Revolution.
Who was Fidel Castro?
Pine Sol Ox (1 word).
What is Explosion?
This is the typical temperature approach used in the design of shell and tube heat exchangers.
What is 10ºF?
A simplified version of this separation process is seen in a coffee or tea maker.
What is Leaching?
Subatomic particle (varieties include strange and charmed) whose name was taken from the James Joyce work "Finnegans Wake.”
What is a Quark?
He was the first democratically elected president of South Africa.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
Tiger Inn (1 word).
What is Inerting?
This transition metal is added to low-alloy steels to increase the strength of the steel at high temperatures.
What is molybdenum?
In distillation, this is the ratio of the amount of vapor in the lowest stage to the amount of bottoms product.
What is the boilup ratio?
Full name of the British scientist (died on April 8th, 2024) who discovered the Higgs Boson.
Who is Peter Higgs?
This country was ruled by Pol Pot until he was overthrown by the Vietnamese army in 1979.
What is Cambodia?
Dupe Risk Rut (2 words).
What is Rupture Disk?
Nickel-copper alloys are known by this name, which is a trademark of the International Nickel Corporation.
What is Monel?
This plot, used in chromatography, shows the effect of velocity on plate height.
What is the van Deemter Plot?
Howard Aiken received a PhD in Physics from Harvard in 1939, and in 1944 he installed the Harvard Mark I, a computer designed for this giant computer company.
What is IBM (International Business Machines)?
The Titanic sank this year.
What is 1912?