The Fundamentals
It's a charged particle and it sure as hell not positive.
Electron
Mass analyzers need this but the other instruments we discussed in class don't. I'm pretty sure Jordin Sparks has some song related to this.
Vacuum
Absorbance is equal to molar absorptivity multiplied by pathlength multiplied by concentration. You can also drink this if you're over 21.
Beer's Law
It's the most useful type of LC. At least according to Mark. All of you except Julia will probably disagree.
FPLC
You can use this with any molecules. Majority of protein structures were determined with this technique. Dr. Guillet got us a new one for single crystals!
X-Ray
One would guess that this is Xiao's favorite molecule. We could be wrong though.
Caffeine
We don't want wonky signals just because the magnetic field strength is not uniform across our sample. Good thing we can do this!
Shim
Instead of radiation being emitted from a singlet state, it is emitted from a triplet state. Sounds forbidden to me.
Phosphorescence
Full name for this 'fancy' flame test. Ro was definitely fired up when we, well, fired it up.
Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy
The "M" in CryoEM, a very popular technique for structural biologists lately.
Microscopy
Not instrumental. Gravimetric analysis, for instance.
Classical
It's a transmitter! No, it's a receiver! No! Yes? Hold on. It's both?
Tranceiver
Two light sources that are most commonly used for UV-Vis spectroscopy. One of them is quite noble, the other is in heavy water.
Xenon/Deuterium
We call it a "300 MHz" even though "MHz" is not the unit for magnetic field strength.
NMR
ITC stands for Isothermal "T" Calorimetry. You can quantify the interaction of A and B based on the heat released as you add a little bit of A into B. Adding a little bit of something to another thing... this has to remind you of someThing...
Titration
Doing an external calibration curve is not always the best. In this case, you spike your sample with a stock solution of known concentration.
Standard Addition
GC detector. Perfect for polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs, highly carcinogenic compounds now banned in the US.
Electron Capture Detector
One photon, SO MANY electrons. That'll surely boost your signal!
Photomultiplier Tubes
Fluorometer/Spectrofluorometer
That's some fancy centrifuge. I heard it can even tell if a protein is changing conformation.
Analytical Ultracentrifugation
Time to frequency, frequency to time. From NMR to orbitrap.
Fourier Transform
It's not an absorption filter. This one has higher transmittance and a narrow bandwidth!
Interference Filter
Sshhh! Too bad ssshhh-ing does not remove random voltage fluctuations or we can easily get rid of this noise.
Thermal/Johnson/White Noise
Rayleigh is for rainbows. This one is pretty 'Stokes.'
Raman
Garbage in, garbage out. Arguably, it's the most important part of your experiment. It doesn't really matter if you have the fanciest instrument. If this is garbage, your data will be garbage.
Sample