The type of bond that forms between both carbon atoms in ethene
What is a covalent double bond?
Ions or neutral molecules that bond to a central metal atom or ion
What are ligands?
What is a strong acid/strong base titration?
The softest rock
What is talc?
Commonly applied to the position and momentum of a particle, this principle states that the more precisely the position is known the more uncertain the momentum is and vice versa.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
This alcohol is found in most ordinary alcoholic drinks
What is ethanol?
The net positive charge that pulls electrons toward the nucleus
What is the effective nuclear charge (Zeff)?
This separation technique uses high-pressure pumps to direct a liquid mobile phase through a column containing an adsorbent stationary phase
What is high-performance liquid chromatography?
This animal is the only one known to produce cube-shaped feces
What are wombats?
Methylmagnesium chloride (CH3-Mg-Cl) is a well-known example of this
What is a Grignard reagent?
When a ligand binds through two coordinate sites
What is bidentate?
The air-water distribution ratio (Kaw) used for chemical partitioning models in the environment is also referred to as this constant
What is the Henry’s Law constant?
Due to seasonal heating and cooling, the Eiffel Tower grows and shrinks by this much (metric units)
What is 15 centimeters?
These two reactants are required for a Diels-Alder reaction
What is a Diene and a Dienophile?
The two types of optical isomers
What are delta and lambda?
This soft ionization technique used in mass spectrometry creates large ions with minimal fragmentation using a laser energy-absorbing matrix
What is Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI)?
The Scottish surgeon Joseph Bell was the real-life inspiration for this fictional character
Who is Sherlock Holmes?
The full name of DIBAL-H
What is Diisobutylaluminium hydride
Microporous, three-dimensional crystalline solids of aluminium silicate (commonly used as molecular filters)
What are zeolites?
This long term disinfectant is a chemical reaction product that occurs at the E.L. Smith water treatment plant in Edmonton to ensure our water is clean by the time it reaches our taps
What is monochloramine (ClNH2)?
The science of determining a tree’s age by looking at its growth rings
What is dendrochronology?