Breaking Chemistry
This highly combustible powder can be made from a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium.
What is thermite?
This graph relates the inverse of the rate to conversion
What is Levenspiel plot?
This commonly used pressure instrument measures in mm Hg or inches of H2O.
What is a manometer?
During this phase transition, the latent heat of vaporization must be released. Types of this include filmwise and dropwise.
What is condensation?
This causes superman to lose his super powers.
What is kryptonite?
What are bleach and ammonia?
Time it takes for a molecule to travel the entire volume of the flow reactor.
What is space time?
In this heat exchanger setup, the fluids travel roughly perpendicular to one another through the exchanger.
What is counter-current/ counter-flow?
This type of fluid undergoes strain rates proportional to the applied shear stress.
What are Newtonian Fluids?
Used to control the power of the warp drive system of starships on Star Trek.
What are dilithium crystals?
This drug is enantiomeric. One enantiomer is a psychostimulant. The other is a common cold medicine.
What is methamphetamine?
Term that accounts for gas-phase expansions in conversion-based stoichiometry.
What is (1+εΧ)?
The purpose of this type of process stream is to enable essentially all of the feed material to be converted to products by a reactor which can achieve less than 100% conversion by recombining with the feed at an earlier point.
What is recycle stream?
This law states that the diffusion flux is proportional to the negative of the concentration gradient.
What is Fick's Law?
Provided the means for Professor Brainard’s car to fly in the 1961 movie The Absent-Minded Professor.
What is flubber?
Instead of hydrofluoric acid, Walt ought to dispose of dead bodies using lye, formally known as this.
What is sodium hydroxide?
This is the ratio between the rate of reaction and the rate of convective transport of A.
What is the Damkohler Number?
Measurements of atmospheric pressure were initially performed in the 1600s in Italy by Evangelista Torricelli, for whom this unit is named?
What is torr?
This set of equations describes the motion of fluid substances such as liquids and gases. These equations state that changes in momentum (force) of fluid particles depend only on the external pressure and internal viscous forces (similar to friction) acting on the fluid.
What are Navier- Stokes equations?
Used to fuel Martian reactors in The War of the Worlds.
What is Heavy Elements?
This is used to create crack or “free base” cocaine from standard cocaine.
What is sodium bicarbonate?
Temperature where the equilibrium curve and the energy balance intersect.
What is the adiabatic temperature?
When a part of a process stream is fed forward into a later stage of the process, the stream is said to be this.
What is bypassed/ bypass stream?
This component transfers heat generated within a solid material to a fluid medium, such as air or a liquid.
What is a heat sink?
This mysterious substance was accidently used by Professor Utonium when he created the Powerpuff Girls, thereby giving them superpowers.
What is Chemical X? (or What is a can of Whoopass?)