Chemistry
A unit of measure equal to 6.02 times 1023 of anything
moles
This form of light occurs when particles absorb energy and do not immediately re-emit that radiation.
Phospherescence
Type I, type II, and type III of this plot describe the relationship between age (in relative units) and the proportion of surviving offspring.
Survivorship curves
This famous Pakistani activist for women's education survived an assassination attempt at fifteen years old, going on to be the youngest Nobel Peace Prize recipient just two years later.
Malala Yousafzai
This is a differential operator applied to a three-dimensional vector-valued function to yield a vector whose three components are the partial derivatives of the function with respect to its three variables.
Gradient
These highly reactive compounds have one unpaired electron
Radicals
The position of maximum displacement in a standing wave system.
Antinode
Trichomes
This journalsit was an activist and a proponent of second-wave feminism in the 60's and 70's. Her activism extended beyond her support for the ERA, as she also protested South African apartheid, opposed the Vietnam and Gulf wars, and published an article titled "After Black Power, Women's Liberation" demonstrating her support for the Black Power Movement.
Gloria Steinem
(lambdaxe-lambda)/x! is the equation for this distribution.
The Poisson Distribution
This property describes a how a conjugated system of electrons (usually in the form of lone pairs or pi bonds) exhibit a more stable structure than what would be expected from conjugation alone.
Aromaticity
A particle made of quark-antiquark pairs.
meson
Not to be confused with cytoplasmic inheritance, this describes when the phenotype of the offspring is determined soley by the genotype of the mother, often because this trait is determined so early in development that the offspring has not started making the proteins expressed by their own DNA but instead use the proteins present in the cytoplasm.
Genetic Maternal Effect
The first woman in the US to be granted MD, she founded several hospitals in New York and the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary after feeling that an ill friend was mistreated by male physicians.
Elizabeth Blackwell
In matrix algebra, these are the specific set of scalar values associated with a linear system of equations.
Eigenvalues
Compounds which have the same molecular formula and sequence of bonded elements but which are nonsuperimposable, non-mirror images of each other
Diastereomers
The apparent offset of a foreground object against the background when perspective changes.
Parallax
This describes the unmyelinated sections of an axon that action potentials are moved across.
Nodes of Ranvier
This best-selling author is known for her speculative fiction, including "Parable of the Sower" and "Kindred" along with other notable works.
Octavia E. Butler
This Greek mathematician who developed a method for identifying prime numbers from 1-100.
Eratosthenes
This type of enzyme facilitates the breakdown of larger molecules into smaller ones, including respiration and digestion.
Catabolic
A phase of matter characterized by the complete absence of resistance to flow.
This compound, present in most non-primate mammals, can induce a red meat allergy following a tick bite.
alpha-gal
This woman is the Chief Scientist at the China Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine.in 2015, she won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her discoveries in a novel malaria therapy which investigated wormwood in fighting this prevalent disease.
Tu Youyou
This describes when trends appear in independent groups of data but reverse or disappear when the groups are combined.
Simpson's Paradox