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Term for a uniform series of cash transactions.
What is an annuity?
The two methods used to remove insolubles, including biomass, from the fermentation broth
What are filtration and centrifugation?
This type of current experiences sinusoidal voltages and occasionally changes direction
What is alternating current?
These are the only elements that are liquid at room temperature (20-25°C) and atmospheric pressure
What are Mercury and Bromine?
This is the most populous state capital
What is Phoenix, Arizona?
The total capital investment is the sum of these two types of capital
What are fixed capital and working capital?
This law provides the design equation upon which batch dead-end filtration is based
What is Darcy’s Law?
This component stores electrical charge and produces a potential difference across two plates
What is a capacitor?
This is the most common metal element in the Earth’s crust
What is Aluminum?
Largest state capital by land area
What is Juneau, Alaska
This depreciation system, created after the release of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, is currently used by businesses for federal taxes
What is MACRS? (Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System)
IEF is an electrophoresis technique that separates proteins based on this
What is the protein’s isoelectric point (pI)?
One part of this “Law” is that the sum of currents entering a junction is equal to the sum of the currents leaving the junction
What is Kirchhoff’s Law?
While the modern periodic table orders the elements by increasing atomic number, Mendeleev’s table arranged the elements by this
What is increasing atomic weight?
This state capital has the highest elevation above sea level
What is Santa Fe, New Mexico?
CEPCI is the acronym for this
What is the Chemical Engineering Plant Cost Index?
This type of chromatography utilizes specific interactions between a solute molecule (e.g., protein) and second immobilized molecule (e.g., an antibody)
What is affinity chromatography?
This is defined as the property of an electric conductor or circuit that causes an electromotive force to be generated by a change in the current flowing
What is inductance?
This is the hardest naturally occurring metal element based on the Mohs scale for hardness
What is Chromium?
These two state capitals lie on the 45th parallel
What are Salem, Oregon and St. Paul, Minnesota?
These costs represent operating expenses that vary with production rate
What are Direct Manufacturing Costs?
These 3 steps are commonly used to purify a recombinant protein using chromatography
What are bind, wash and elute?
This is the SI unit for inductance
What is the Henry?
This is the first artificially produced element that was isolated in 1937 by Carlo Perrier and Emilio Segrè
What is Technetium?
This is the northern most state capital in the contiguous 48 states
What is Olympia, Washington?