Wednesday Activities
This instrument generates intense mixing through a combination of resonance and sound energy
What is a resonant acoustic mixer? (RAM)
This type of force/pressure is applied uniformly in all directions
What is hydrostatic force/pressure?
This is the name of the 3D printing filament we used today
What is PLA? (polylactic acid)
This one word greeting is a mandatory call-and-response word for all Aggies
What is howdy?
Two U.S. Presidents have shared this last name (not to mention genetic material) which is a homonym of the fundamental units of matter that make up chemical compounds
What is Adams (atoms)?
This is the full name for PET
What is polyethylene terephthalate?
This scientist studied the grinding of mercury and silver chloride with the powder of active metal, such as iron or zinc
Who is Michael Faraday?
When a fracture occurs in a crystal, positive and negative charges separate, then recombine to release energy as light. The phenomenon is referred to as
What is triboluminescence?
This is the sixth largest non-racing stadium venue in the world
What is Kyle Field?
As the chemical joke goes, if you have a sick chemist and you can't He or Cm, then you have to this element
What is Ba?
The chemical process in the Hammer Challenge belongs to this simple class of reactions
What is a double replacement?
This represents the volume difference between the transition state and reactant(s)
What is activation volume?
This spectroscopic technique provides information about molecular characteristics of a sample by identifying its specific vibrational frequency
What is IR spectroscopy?
This U.S. President is buried on Texas A&M's campus
Who is George H.W. Bush?
While Francium is clearly named after France, this other element shares its namesake but with the Latin name as its base
What is Gallium?
The conversion of PET into TPA that involves the insertion of water molecules to break down bonds
What is hydrolysis?
These are the types of mechanical forces that dominate mechanochemical reactions in the mortar and pestle
What are normal and shear force?
This technique provides detailed information about the crystal structure of a given sample by measuring the scattering angles of high energy electromagnetic radiation
What is X-Ray Diffraction? (XRD)
This is the name of Texas A&M's mascot, who is officially the highest ranking member of its Corps of Cadets
What is Reveille?
The original Latin name for lead, which gives it its atomic symbol, might make more sense if you think about the official profession of Super Mario
What is plumbum?
These are each of the ball mills that are supplied in the Mechanochemical Innovation Hub
What are the Retsch MM400, Retsch MM500, Fritsch Planetary Mill, and Fritsch Vibratory (mini) Mill?
These are the names of the two compounds you combined in the Prussian blue experiment
What are potassium ferricyanide and iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate? (K3[Fe(CN)6] and FeSO4•7H2O)
Characterized by the general formula ABX3, this class of compounds can be engineered into colloidal nanocrystals optimized for highly photoluminescent, narrow-bandwidth emission
What are perovskites?
The A and the M in Texas A&M stand for this
What is Agricultural & Mechanical?
The island of Cyprus is believed to be the namesake of this element by way of Old English
What is copper?