Thermo Fisher Scientific
POROS Chromatography Resins
Massachusetts
Earth
Science
100

This global company, known for its scientific instrumentation, reagents, and consumables, was founded in 1956.

What is Thermo Electron Company?

100

POROS resins are primarily used in this type of process to purify biological molecules.

What is chromatography?

100

This city is the capital of Massachusetts and one of the oldest cities in the United States.

What is Boston?

100

This is the largest continent on Earth by both area and population.

What is Asia?

100

This element, with the atomic number 6, is the basis for all known life.

What is carbon?

200

Thermo Fisher Scientific is headquartered in this Massachusetts city.

What is Waltham?

200

POROS chromatography resins are known for their high capacity and this characteristic, which allows for faster processing.

What is high flow rate?

200

This prestigious university, founded in 1636, is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.

What is Harvard University?

200

This river is the longest in the world, flowing through northeastern Africa

What is the Nile River?

200

This table organizes all known chemical elements by increasing atomic number.

What is the periodic table?

300

In 2006, Thermo Electron Corporation merged with this company to form Thermo Fisher Scientific.

What is Fisher Scientific?

300

This company, known for its scientific solutions and instrumentation, manufactures POROS chromatography resins.

What is Thermo Fisher Scientific?

300

This Massachusetts city is home to the Basketball Hall of Fame.

What is Springfield?

300

This is the most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere, making up about 78%.

What is nitrogen?

300

This process by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy is called.

What is photosynthesis?

400

Thermo Fisher Scientific operates in this number of countries worldwide.

What is over 50 countries?

400

POROS resins are commonly used in the purification of this type of large, complex molecule, such as antibodies and proteins.

What are biomolecules?

400

This annual event in Boston celebrates the city's history with a series of reenactments and commemorations of the American Revolution.

What is Patriots' Day?

400

This scale measures the magnitude of earthquakes

What is the Richter scale?

400

This natural disaster occurs when tectonic plates shift and release energy.

 What is an earthquake?

500

This division of Thermo Fisher Scientific provides analytical instruments, laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables, reagents, chemicals, and supplies.

What is the Analytical Instruments division?

500

This method, often used with POROS resins, involves binding specific molecules to a ligand for purification purposes.

What is affinity chromatography?

500

This Massachusetts city is known as the "City of Seven Hills" and was the site of an important American Civil War arsenal

What is Worcester?

500

This desert is the largest hot desert in the world.

What is the Sahara Desert?

500

This term describes the speed and direction of an object's motion.

What is velocity?