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100

A highly reactive nonmetal required for respiration with an atomic mass of 15.9994.

What is Oxygen?

100

What Chemistry course introduces students to nomenclature, thermodynamics, reactions involving oxygen, hydrogen, acids, bases, and more? This course also introduces students to the periodic table, atomic and molecular structure.

What is General Chem I?

100

The chemist this club is named after.

Who is James C. Stallings?

100

This is name of the reaction between an acid and a base.

What is a neutralization reaction?

100

Sammy the Bearkat

Who is the Sam Houston Mascot?

200

This element is needed to build strong bones and teeth.

What is Calcium?

200

This chemistry course introduces students to gas laws, equilibria, kinetics, thermodynamics, electrochemistry, and oxidation-reduction reactions.

What is General Chem II?

200

This law states that in the process of a reaction, the amount of matter involved before and after the reaction takes place remains the same.

What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?

200

This is the range of pH's considered to be basic.

What is between the pH's of 7 to 14?

200

Founded in 1879


When was Sam Houston Founded?


300

This liquid is used to determine body, liquid, and vapor temperatures.

What is Mercury?

300

This chemistry course introduces students to the study of chemical bonding and structure of organic molecules. Functional group reactions and synthesis are emphasized.

What is Organic Chemistry I?

300

The number constant 6.022 X 10^23 is named after this chemist.

Who is Avogadro?

300

What is an example of a strong base?

What is hydroxide? 

(Any spectator ion with hydroxide is acceptable)

300

What number is added to the Celsius scale in order to convert to Kelvin?

What is 273.15?

400

Madame Curie conducted research on this radioactive element.

What is Radium?

400

This chemistry course introduces students to the foundations of thermodynamics and spectroscopic methods including radio-frequency, microwave, infrared, X-ray, and more, are developed from first principles with an atomistic point of view.

What is Physical Chemistry?

400

Which law states that the absorbance is light is proportional to the path length of the sample and concentration of the absorbing species?

What is Beer's Law?

400

This functional group known for its ability to accept protons gives its molecules a characteristically fishy smell.

What are amines?

400

This is the variable unique to each compound that describes the amount of energy needed to raise a gram of material by one degree Kelvin.

What is specific heat capacity?

500

A rare element that is corrosion resistant and is linked to the extinction of dinosaurs.

What is Iridium?

500

This chemistry course shows students methods of searching the literature in chemistry with emphasis placed on the use of chemical abstracts, chemical patent literature, journals, reference collections, and more in the many specialties in chemistry.

What is Chemical Literature (Seminar)?

500

This chemist coined the term radioactivity, discovered polonium and radium, and was awarded the Nobel Prize twice in physics and chemistry.

Who is Marie Curie?

500

This is the primary purpose of a buffer solution.

What is to maintain a moderate pH against the addition of acid or base?

500

The native American tribe gave sam Houston the nickname, the raven.

Who are The Cherokee tribe?

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