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100
A common description for the arrangement of electrons in metals
What is a sea of electrons?
100
This monomer with the following structure forms the backbone of peptides and proteins
What are amino acids?
100
Phospholipids are observed to form this structure when placed in aqueous solution in order to minimize the entropic decrease when in contact with water
What are micelles?
100
Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1918 for his work on developing the industrial synthesis of ammonia, this controversial chemist also developed a method to produce and weaponize chlorine gas during WWI
Who is Fritz Haber?
100
The red color of mars is due to the high concentration of oxides for this metal.
What is iron?
200
d8 transition metals with a coordination number of 4 often form this non-tetrahedral geometry
What is square planar?
200
This feature in organic dyes is responsible for visible coloration
What is conjugation
200
This gas is both a hormone for plants and a feedstock for plastics, often used to ripen fruits.
What is ethylene?
200
The first person to visualize and determine DNA’s double-helical structure using X-ray diffraction
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
200
With improvements in technology, this radioactive element was the first synthetic element created in a laboratory
What is Technetium?
300
Two of three metals in groups 9 and 10 that are present in catalytic converters
What is platinum, palladium, or rhodium?
300
The most common molecular form of sulfur
What is S8 (cyclooctasulfur)?
300
Two carbon-containing molecules that participate in the Krebs Cycle
What is, Acetyl-CoA, Citrate, Aconitate, Isocitrate, a-ketoglutarate, Succinyl-CoA, Succinate, Fumarate, Malate, OR Oxaloacetate?
300
The current department chair of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSB as of September 2021
Who is Mattanjah deVries?
300
The two main solvents in juul pods
What is glycerin and propylene glycol?
400
Most polymers have carbon backbones, this viscoelastic childhood toy has a polymer with an inorganic backbone containing silicon
What is silly putty?
400
Catalysts impact the ____, but not the ____ of a reaction
What is kinetics, thermodynamics?
400
The fastest known enzyme catalyzes the conversion between aqueous and dissolved forms of this gas to rapidly adjust pH in your blood
What is carbon dioxide?
400
Walter Kohn and Alan J. Heeger respectively won the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1998 and in 2000 were professors in which Department at UCSB
What is the Physics Department?
400
The most recent Nobel Prizes in chemistry was awarded for the development of this.
What is asymmetric organocatalysis?
500
The number of planes of symmetry in benzene
What is 7?
500
The statistics based shape of a polymer chain
What is a random walk?
500
DNA is missing this functional group on the 2’ position of its ribose backbone which makes it more stable than RNA
What is a 2’ hydroxide?
500
This individual’s model of the atom is adopted as the current scientific consensus?
Who is Erwin Schrodinger?
500
In a video published on December 18, 2020, popular youtube chemist NileRed successfully synthesized this artificial flavor using plastic gloves.
What is grape flavor?