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100

What is the chemical formula for baking soda?

What is Sodium Bicarbonate (NaHCO3)?

But baking powder is baking soda plus an acid. You can choose a baking powder that has no aluminum. Your body needs zero aluminum.

100

What is the formal charge of an oxygen atom with one bond and six lone pairs?

Negative. 

100

I am the only mammal that can fly.

What is a bat?

Flying squirrels and gliders just glide. Flying fish also glide. Flying foxes are bats that eat fruit, not blood. Some bats feed on blood, but most (70%) eat insects.

They eat mosquitoes, beetles, moths, and flies. Some can eat 1,000 mosquitoes per hour.

100

What type of chemical reaction is photosynthesis?

What is an oxidation-reduction reaction?

100

What is amoxicillin classified as?

What is a Penicillin Antibiotic?

200

What is the 7th column of the periodic table classified as?

What are Halogens?
200

When combined with hydrogen, what do the atoms in the 7th column of the periodic table make?

What are Strong Acids?

200

Are dogs or cats cooler?

Dogs. The only correct answer is dogs.

200

What is the colorless, odorless, tasteless toxic gas that has one less oxygen than what plants breathe in and what we breathe out?

What is carbon monoxide (CO)?

Plants consume CO2 and produce O2 and carbohydrates via photosynthesis using chlorophyll as the catalyst. Chlorophyll is the primary pigment that makes plants green.

200

What are oxycodone, hydrocodone, and morphine classified as?

What are opioids?

300

During my reaction, I lose energy, indicated by forming weak base from a strong base. What type of reaction am I?

What is exothermic?

For example NaOH + HF --> NaF  + H2O(l) + heat

NaOH is a strong base. NaF is a mildly alkaline salt.

300

When combined with hydroxide, what do the atoms in the first column of the periodic table make?

What are strong bases?

NaOH is lye or caustic soda. KOH is caustic potash.

Sodium hydroxide and potassium hydroxide can cause blindness and clean meat from bones.

300

I am the largest rodent, an amazing swimmer, I like to sing, and I can run up to 22mph.

What is a capybara?

Adults can grow up to 4 feet long and weigh between 77 and 174 pounds. They live in South America near lakes, rivers, swamps, and flooded grasslands.

300

What is the 4th state of matter?

What is a plasma?

It is a high energy state, consisting of a superheated, ionized gas where free electrons and positive ions move independently.

300

The science of medical drug and medication, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. 

What is Pharmacology?
400

 I am 78% of air. Oxygen is the solute and I am the solvent.

What is nitrogen?

Air is a homogeneous mixture of gases. It is a solution of 21% O2 dissolved in N2 gas. Another 1% is argon, Ar.

400

What is the simplest substance that has it's own characteristics, which cannot be broken down anymore, that is also the name of a Kendrick Lamar song?

What is an Element?

400

Where is the brain in a starfish located?

They don't have a brain!

400

What happens when you mix Lithium and H2O?

You get LiOH and H2. The H2 can ignite. What is combustion?

400

Who developed Oxycontin?

Who is Purdue Pharma?

Its central role in fueling the modern American opioid crisis due to aggressive, misleading marketing by Purdue Pharma that downplayed oxycontin's high risk of addiction and abuse.

500

Pepsin + Lipase + ? = Stomach Acid

What is missing?

What is Hydrochloric Acid (HCl)

500

Which is more soluble in H20? (CH3)3CCH2CH2CH2Cl or CH3CH2CH2Br?

What is CH3CH2CH2Br?

Why? It has less aliphatic character, fewer CH2 and CH3 groups. So it is a little less hydrophobic.

500

I have a stinging pinch so fast that it generates a heat of around 8,800 degrees Fahrenheit, 10 times hotter than lava, (about the temperature of the surface of the sun) and a sound of 218 dB (which is louder than a bullet).

What is a Pistol Shrimp?

500

What are the products of NaOH + HCl?

What is salt and water?

NaOH + HCl -->  NaCl  + H2O(l)


500

What type of scientist was Walter White?

What is an Organic Chemist?

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