The Element of Life
Carbon (C)
Name of a 6 carbon alkene ring
Benzene
A negative particle that exists in a "cloud" around an atom's nucleus
Electron
The Original 4 Elements Descended of Prima Materia in Alchemy
Fire, Earth, Water, Air
Chemistry Undergraduate Coordinator (Chem Major Interim Advisor)
"The Notorious B.I.G." Don "Danger" Austin "Texas"
Named in 1946 after the BEST country on EARTH
(they hate us cause they ain't us)
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(Am)
Term for when the maximum number of hydrogen possible are bound to a hydrocarbon (alkanes)
Saturated
ΔG = ΔH - TΔ(_)
Name The Missing Variable
Entropy (S)
What substance were alchemists trying to turn lead into?
Gold (Ag)
The AXS Faculty Advisor
Dr. Kinsland
Number 26 on the periodic table
Iron (Fe)
The direction from which a nucleophile approaches a substitution reaction
Backside Attack
The principle that states that electrons always fill the lowest energy orbitals first
Aufbau Principle
Roman Deity associated with the element Iron and Tuesday
Mars
OG chem building before it burned in a fire in 1916
Morse Hall
The Element at the end of most radioactive decay chains
Lead
Property which determines the "handedness" (superimposability) of a molecule
Chirality
Inorganic Chemistry largely deals with these elements and their d-orbitals in the middle of the periodic table
Transition Metals
An alchemical substance that can supposedly turn other elements into gold and produce the Elixir of Life
The Philosopher's Stone
Number of Chemistry Nobel Prize Winners to come out of Cornell
4
An element often used in organic synthesis reactions due to its tendency to form complexes with low activation energy
Palladium (Pd)
Position when substituents are directly opposite to each other on a benzene derivative
Para
The property of photons, electrons, and all other particles to carry specific values of energy discovered by Max Planck
Quantization
An ancient text from Egypt detailing the secrets to transmutation
The Emerald Tablet
Full name of the man who funded the construction of Baker Lab (Middle Name Too)
George Fisher Baker