Chemical Engineering
This unit operation separates solids from liquids using a porous medium.
What is filtration?
Steel is primarily an alloy of iron and this element.
What is carbon?
The molecule that carries genetic information.
What is DNA?
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the First Law of Thermodynamics?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This dimensionless number compares inertial forces to viscous forces.
Reynolds Number
This test measures hardness by pressing a diamond pyramid into a material.
What is the Vickers Hardness Test?
Microorganisms convert sugars into ethanol through this process.
What is fermentation?
This property measures the degree of disorder in a system.
What is entropy?
The SI unit named after a scientist that measures catalytic activity
What is the katal?
This reactor assumes perfect mixing throughout its volume
What is a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR)?
The crystal structure of room-temperature iron.
What is Body-Centered Cubic (BCC)?
The enzyme responsible for synthesizing DNA during replication.
What is DNA polymerase?
The efficiency of no heat engine operating between two reservoirs can exceed this cycle.
What is the Carnot Cycle?
This philosopher tutored Alexander the Great.
Who was Aristotle?
According to Le Chatelier's Principle, increasing pressure favors the side with fewer moles of this.
What are gas molecules?
This mechanism strengthens metals by restricting dislocation motion through grain refinement.
What is the Hall-Petch Effect?
This genome-editing technology uses the Cas9 protein.
What is CRISPR?
This thermodynamic potential is minimized at constant temperature and pressure.
What is Gibbs Free Energy?
This spacecraft became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space in 2012.
What is Voyager 1?
This equation relates pressure drop to flow rate through packed beds.
What is the Ergun Equation?
This phenomenon causes materials subjected to cyclic loading to fail below their yield strength.
What is fatigue?
The Monod equation describes microbial growth as a function of this variable.
What is substrate concentration?
For an ideal gas undergoing an adiabatic reversible process, this relation remains constant.
What is PVĪ³=constant?
The only country that borders both the Caspian Sea and the Persian Gulf.
What is Iran?