Gas and Matter Laws
A law of pressure and gas that states gases tend to expand while heated.
What is Charles's law?
This former Chair of Diversity and Chemistry professor at the U of A was one of the founders of WISEST.
Who is Dr. Margaret Ann Armour?
These are cooler dark areas on the sun's surface. Every 11 years, the sun seems to have a major breakout.
What are sunspots?
Of DNA's 8 bases, this one was first discovered in animal dung hence its name.
What is Guanine?
Oganesson, element 118 is a synthetic element in what group on the periodic table?
What are the Nobel Gases?
This letter represents the universal gas constant in the ideal gas law.
What is R?
This New Zealand born chemist who worked at McGill University in Montreal and discovered atoms have a small charged nucleus surrounded by empty space.
Who is Ernest rutherford?
These are made of ices such as water, carbon dioxide, ammonia and methane mixed with dust, and are basically dirty snowballs that orbit the sun.
What are comets?
These are the monomers of proteins, of which there are 20 essential standard ones.
What are amino acids?
Decompression sickness, AKA the bends is characterized by the formation of bubbles of this gas in the blood.
What is Nitrogen?
This Law about pressure and gas describes how the pressure of a gas tends to increase as the volume of a container decreases.
What is Boyle's law?
This Nobel winning physicist worked near the frontline in WW1 x-raying wounded soldiers.
Who is Marie Curie?
This shape describes Mercury's orbit.
What is an ellipse?
These proteins are biological catalysts.
What are enzymes?
In 1860 this German, also known for his burner co-discovered Cesium.
Who is Bunsen
This law states that matter can not be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of conservation of matter
This Austrian American actress pioneered the technology that formed the basis for WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth.
Who is Hedy Lamarr?
This planet has less density than water- if there was a large enough body of water to hold it, it would float.
What is Saturn?
This organelle is NOT the powerhouse of the cell, rather the self destruct organelle involved in apoptosis.
What are the Lysosmes?
This periodic table family is very reactive with air and water.
What are the alkali metals?
This sunny state of matter is an ionized gas.
What is plasma?
This onetime chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission received the National Medal of Science in 2015. She is credited as helping develop the technology that enabled caller ID and Call waiting.
Who is Dr. Shirely Jackson?
Both Neptune and Jupiter have these. Neptune's is called the Great Dark Spot and Jupiter's is called the Great Red Spot.
What is a storm?
This three-letter molecule that contains three phosphorus atoms, is able to store and transport chemical energy within cells.
What is ATP?
This country is named after the element with the symbol Ag.
What is Argentina?