Safety Acronyms
FP
What is the flash point?
For a molecule to be considered organic, it must contain this element.
What is carbon?
This small ring of DNA is independent from the bacterium’s main genome and is commonly used in genetic engineering.
What is a plasmid?
This universal process separates the components from a liquid mixture by selective evaporation and condensation.
What is distillation?
Taste the Rainbow (slogan)
What is Skittles?
CEPCI
What is the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index?
This is typically the bond angle between tetrahedral, sp3 hybridized carbon compounds.
What is 109.5°?
This is the function of a flagellum.
What is locomotion (movement)?
This analog to Newton’s law of viscosity relates the diffusive flux to the concentration under the assumption of steady state.
What is Fick’s Law?
Sebastian from The Little Mermaid.
What is a crab?
NFPA
What is the National Fire Protection Association?
According to Boyle’s Law, this parameter will increase at constant temperature when volume is decreased.
What is pressure?
Okazaki fragments are associated with this essential process.
What is DNA replication?
This accumulation of unwanted material on solid surfaces of a heat exchanger is detrimental to its function.
What is fouling?
This antibiotic was discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1929.
What is Penicillin?
LOPA
What is layer of protection analysis?
Elements 98 and 99 (Bk and Cf) were discovered at UCRL, which is associated with this university.
What is the University of California, Berkeley?
Retroviruses are equipped with this enzyme that allows DNA to be transcribed from an RNA template.
What is reverse transcriptase?
This dimensionless number, also called the mass transfer Nusselt number, represents the ratio of the convective mass transfer rate to the diffusive mass transport rate.
What is the Sherwood number?
The interstate shown here was underwater during Hurricane Harvey
What is I-10?
IDLH
What is Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health?
This word is spelled using the periodic table abbreviations for elements 5, 8, and 10.
What is “bone” (B-O-Ne)?
These structures are necessary for conjugation.
What are pili?
This dimensionless number is the ratio of the advective transport rate of a physical quantity to the diffusive transport rate of the same quantity.
What is the Péclet number?
The location (i.e., city) and type of explosion(s) for the 1984 accident at a liquid petroleum gas tank farm that resulted in over 500 deaths.
What are Mexico City (San Juanico) and BLEVEs?