ACS
The full name of our local ACS section
What is the California Section of the American Chemical Society?
The 2 departments in the CoC
What are the departments of Chemistry and Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering?
Proposed that ΔpΔx ≥ h/4π
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
The number of elements currently in the periodic table
What is 118?
The only metal that is a liquid at room temperature
What is mercury?
The largest ACS technical division
What is the Organic Chemistry?
The number of elements UC Berkeley researchers have discovered
What is 16?
Performed the gold foil experiment
Who is Ernest Rutherford?
The rarest naturally occurring element on Earth
What is astatine?
Don't add this common substance to sulfuric acid to avoid explosion
What is water?
The founding year of ACS
What is 1876?
The number of undergraduates in the CoC (as of Spring 2020)
What is 981?
Proposed that light have wave-particle duality
Who is Albert Einstein?
The color of liquid oxygen
What is blue?
The total number of ACS peer-reviewed journals
What is 61?
The number of buildings part of the CoC
What is 6?
Proposed that electrons move in fixed orbitals
Who is Neils Bohr?
The first artificially synthesized element
What is Technetium?
Aqua regia can readily dissolve this element (either correct answer is accepted)
What is gold (OR platinum)?
The weekly trade magazine of ACS established in 1923 (Hint: ACS members receive an email from this publication every week regarding webinars)
What is Chemical & Engineering News (C&EN)?
The most recent Berkeley-affiliated researcher to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Who is Frances Arnold?
Discovered the atomic number
Who is Henry Moseley?
Feynman predicted this to be the highest number the periodic table can reasonably go up until
What is 136?
The temperature required to convert graphite into diamond
What is 3000ºC?