Chemistry
Material Balances
Unit Ops.
RIT
Randomness
100
This highly combustible powder can be made from a mixture of iron oxide and aluminium.
What is thermite?
100

A system whose variables which define the behavior are unchanging in time.

What is a steady state?

100

Basic step in a chemical process

What is a unit operation?
100

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What is RIT's zip code?

100

Founder of Paychex and heavy donor to practically everything in Rochester.

Who is B. Thomas Golisano?

200
Mixing these common household ingredients results in the production of hydrochloric gas.
What is bleach and ammonia?
200
In this heat exchanger setup, the fluids travel roughly perpendicular to one another through the exchanger.
What is counter-current/counter-flow?
200

Action of purifying a liquid by a process of heating and cooling.

What is the distillation?

200

Shape of the sculpture in Infinity Quad.

What is a Mobius Strip?
200

Celebration of all things ChemE at RIT, where Steve wears roller skates.

What is Pizza with Steve?

300

Type of chemical reaction that involves a transfer of electrons between two species

What is Oxidation/Reduction (Redox)?

300

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?

300
This type of reboiler only vaporizes part of the liquid in the column base and provides an extra ideal stage.
What is a partial reboiler?
300

Fourth oldest program of it's kind in the world.

What is the co-op program?
300

Name of the Bar that is constantly mentioned by professors but very few people actually go there.

What is McGreggor's Tavern?
400
This drug is enantiomeric. One enantiomer is a psychostimulant. The other is a common cold medicine.
What is methamphetamine?
400

Derived from the Clausius-Clapeyron relationship, this equation describes the relation between vapor pressure and temperature for pure components.

What is the Antoine equation?

400
S=(mG)/L
What is the Stripping Factor?
400

Year when Chemical Engineering was first added to RIT.

What is 2009?

400

Original home of the Garbage Plate.

What is Nick Tahou hots?

500

Logarithmic and inverse indication of the concentration of hydrogen ions in a solution.

What is pH?

500
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?
500
These two MIT graduate students developed a graphical technique for describing binary distillation now taught in almost every distillation course.
Who is McCabe and Thiele?
500

RIT's Original Mascot until 1956.

Who are the Techmen?

500

Name of the failed project that was meant to expand tourism in Rochester, it was opened in 2004 and closed in 2005.

What is the Spirit of Ontario or the Fast Ferry to Toronto?

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