ChemHistory
This female physicist and chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel prize for her research in radioactivity
Who is Marie Curie?
This polyatomic ion is commonly found in fertilizers and explosives
What is Nitrate?
This is considered the greenest solvent in green chemistry
What is Water?
This element is the main focus of organic chemistry
What is Carbon?
Geisel Library was named after this famous children's book author
Dr. Seuss
The atomic region discovered by Rutherford by shooting alpha particles at gold foil.
2Na(s) + 2H2O(l) -> 2Na___(aq) + H2(g)
What is Hydroxide?
This branch of chemistry uses instruments and methods used to separate, identify, and quantify matter
What is Analytical Chemistry?
The only metallic element that is liquid at STP
What is Mercury?
This public art collection on UCSD campus contains pieces such as the Sun God statue and the Snake Path.
What is the Stuart Collection?
Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier won the Nobel prize in chemistry for the development of this genome editing technique
What is CRISPR?
This polyatomic ion is used in the body to make acetyl-CoA
What is Acetate?
There are this many principles of green chemistry
What is 12?
This halogen is an essential nutrient and is essential in the synthesis of thyroid hormones
What is Iodine?
Before changing its name in 1958, UCSD was originally named this
UC La Jolla
This ancient civilization coined the term "atom," meaning the smallest "indivisible" unit of matter.
What is Ancient Greece?
The strongest acid possible in aqueous solution
What is hydronium?
This principle of green chemistry emphasizes that procedures should be designed to create as little byproducts as possible
What is Atom Economy?
The most abundant metallic element in Earth’s crust and commonly used in aircraft construction
What is Aluminum?
This chemistry Nobel laureate, who had helped publish the first paper on the greenhouse effect, has a hall named after him in Revelle college
Who is Harold Urey?
This Nobel winning method for nitrogen fixation is the basis of modern fertilizer production and industrial agriculture. It is also used as a source of ammonia for explosives.
What is the Haber process?
The active component of baking soda
What is the bicarbonate ion?
Green Chemistry was written into American law by this act in 1990
What is the Pollution Prevention Act?
Compounds containing this element are added to fireworks to make them green
What is Barium?
Before becoming part of UCSD in 1964, Camp Matthews was a base for this branch of the military
What is the Marines?