The Elements
The elements of the periodic table are sorted by this number
What is atomic number?
All organic compounds contain this element
What is Carbon?
This element makes up the largest proportion of the body mass
What is oxygen?
Chemists Walter White and Jesse Pinkman synthesize this Drug in the hit show Breaking Bad
What is methamphetamine?
The current chancellor of UMass Amherst
Who is Javier Reyes?
An inert group of elements that make up the 18th group of the periodic table
What are the noble gases?
What is glucose? (or fructose)
This site is considered the catalytic site in enzymes
What is an active site?
This chemistry youtuber has a channel named after a lipophillic stain
Who is Nile Red?
The most recent addition to the UMass family is this campus located in Newton, MA
What is Mount Ida?
The most electronegative element in the periodic table
Fluorine
The simplest ester
What is methyl methanoate?
This technique was used to elucidate the structure of the DNA in the 50's
What is X-ray Crystallography?
This dye has recently gained notoriety for possibly having hyperactive effects on children (although current scientific consensus disagrees)
Red-40
This UMass club holds a yearly competition, the winner of which becomes the President of the club
What is the lettuce club?
The first person to report the discovery of Oxygen
Who is Joseph Priestley?
This gaseous organic compound is an important signalling molecule in plants
What is ethylene?
The most abundant amino acid in humans
What is glutamine?
Before UMass was called UMass, it was called
Massachusetts Agricultural College
Four elements in the periodic table are named after this village
What is Ytterby?
The first chemically synthesized organic compound
What is urea?
What is methyl?
The winners of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Who are Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Aleksey Yekimov
This residential area (eg. Sylvan, Ohill etc.) is the most recent addition to the UMass housing options
What is Southwest?