Science of Pokemon
Combusken is named after a chicken and this reaction.
What is Combustion?
This physical chemist has provided the alias for Walter White in Breaking Bad.
Who is Werner Heisenberg?
In the pursuit of Elixir of Immortality, Chinese alchemists discovered an explosive they first used for fireworks before its use in firearms.
What is black powder?
This compound provides the rotten-egg smell of the hot springs at Yellowstone National Park.
What is Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)?
In this state, matter takes the shape of its container, and the free-moving molecules within still interact with each other.
What is a liquid?
Both the pokemon Dragalge and its inspiration, the Leafy Seadragon, use this adaptation to blend into their surroundings.
What is Camouflage?
This Polish chemist was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize but was the first person to win the Nobel Prize twice - for physics in 1903 and for chemistry 1911 - while pioneering research in radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie?
This metal was named hydrargyrum (or silvery water) in ancient Greece and was tied to erratic behavior of Lewis Carroll's Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland.
What is mercury?
This animal is attracted to sulcatone, which is found in blue cheese, rotten coconuts, and rancid butter. (hint: it is an insect.)
What is an house ant?
This state has a flag with an eagle, an elk, cows, and ... oh, a beaver.
Who is Oregon?
This electric/ghost type gets its name from the electric motor.
Who is Rotom?
An alumni of Oregon State University who contributed to the Manhattan Project in WW II, protested nuclear weapon proliferation and war, and studied vitamin C as an antioxidant.
Who is Linus Pauling?
Chrysopoiea, a goal of alchemists dating back to ancient Greece, sought to create this precious metal. This feat was achieved in 1941 and again 1980 with a particle accelerator.
What is gold?
This word describes two things:
1) A branch of mathematics developed by Isaac Newton
2) A dental calcium phosphate mineral deposit formed by the bacteria responsible for tooth decay
What is calculus?
This term refers to a molecule's energy floor.
What is the ground state?
This legendary Pokemon was partly inspired by the discovery of antimatter.
Who is Giratina?
Mario Marino was the 1995 Nobel Prize winner for expanding our knowledge of this atmospheric region in the Earth's stratosphere. This region absorbs 97-99% of UV radiation from the sun.
What is the ozone layer?
Thermite contains these two common materials and could produce enough heat to melt armored tanks and artillery in WW II.
What is rust and aluminum?
According to biomaterials researcher Tim Winegard, this everyday item could soon be built from hagfish slime.
What is high-performance clothing?
This state holds the world's second largest asteroid impact, pyramids, and yucas.
What is the State of Yucatan?
This dinosaur showed the transition from non-avian dinosaurs to birds and was the inspiration for Archen and Archeops.
What is Archaeopteryx?
An African American chemist who made multiple breakthroughs like the synthesis of the birth control hormone progesterone, wood glue, and paint from soy beans.
Who is Percy Lavon Julian?
Uroborus, a serpent eating its own tail, inspired August Kukele's model for this six-carbon aromatic compound.
What is benzene?
The coral-eating crown-of-thorn starfish has a surprising weakness. This foul-smelling steroid acid mixture is found in mammalian guts like our own.
What is bile?
This state of matter is predominantly found in the sun.
What is plasma?