In the Lab
Also the name of Dr. Honeydew's best friend, it's great for holding liquids, but terrible for measuring.
What is a beaker?
The first person to win 2 Nobels and was involved in discovering polonium and radium
Who is Marie Curie?
_____ oxide is used in every gen chem student's favorite lab, and would be a very bad sandwich topping.
What is Cadmium?
A fantastic solvent with a high heat capacity that life depends on
What is Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Kaylee's graduation year
When is 2027?
Got something colorful? Great! Stick it in here and we'll tell you all about the light it's absorbing.
What is a UV-vis spectrometer?
A 1909 experiment involved directing alpha particles at a thin foil made of this metal
What is gold?
Also found in table salt, this element is naturally a diatomic poisonous gas
What is Chlorine?
Not a proton, it's the other particle found in the nucleus
What is a neutron?
The reality show Kaleigh wants to be on very badly
What is Survivor?
Commonly found in 6 inches or 9 inches in the gen chem labs, this glassware is used for transferring liquids (and sometimes column chromatography).
What is a pipette?
Often confused with a green vegetable (or fruit, depending on who you ask) that goes great on toast, the number of atoms in a mole is named after them
Who is Amedeo Avogadro?
This element is a carcinogen and has 4 protons
What is Beryllium?
According to Einstein, light can act as a particle and this
What is a wave?
Where Kaelie is doing her MQP
What is UMass Chan?
Oooh! It glows! This instrument can excite a sample at a particular wavelength and tell you about the light it emits.
What is a fluorimeter?
This chemist was involved in the discovery of 10 elements, and element 106 is named after them
Who is Glenn Seaborg?
This is the lightest element with no stable isotopes (all of its isotopes are radioactive)
What is Technetium?
In order for the universe to approve a process thermodynamically, this must be negative
What is Gibbs Free Energy?
The 2 of the 3 clubs Emily is on the exec for (other than ACS)
What is Ski & Snowboard Club, Coffee Club, or ISPE?
Glassware that's great for measuring a certain volume of liquid, and one volume only.
What is a volumetric flask?
This early model of the atom proposed by J.J. Thomson in 1904 looked somewhat like a chocolate chip cookie
What is the plum pudding model?
Element 94, a product of nuclear reactors, and used to power space probes
What is Plutonium?
In this order kinetics, the natural log of the concentration of a reactant vs time has a linear relationship
What is first?
The animals Collin sometimes collects and tags on the beach
What are horseshoe crabs?