Physical Constants
Avogadro's number represents a collection of approximately 60 223 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 objects; that sucks to count, so we call this collection by this name.
This functional group describes a common carbon-carbon double bond.
What is an alkene? ("vinyl" group also accepted)
This equation specifies the equation of state for a non-interacting gas; it is only valid at high temperature or low pressure, due to intermolecular interactions.
What is the ideal gas law? (PV = nRT)
These four heterocyclic organic bases form the primary building blocks of DNA.
What are adenine (A), cytosine (C), thymine (T), and guanine (G)?
While barely functioning as a game, this best-seller has contestants travelling through hallucinogenic locales such as Candy Cane Forest and Gumdrop Mountain.
What is Candy Land?
The gas constant has many different values depending on units of convenience, but most commonly this value in units of J mol^-1 K^-1.
What is 8.314472?
This functional group, when in its conjugate base form, features two equivalent carbonyl groups in resonance with each other.
What is a carboxylic acid?
This equation allows one to calculate the residual, excess energy available for further work after a process. It also allows one to determine whether a process is spontaneous or not at a set of given conditions.
What is Gibbs free energy? (dG = dH - TdS)
These three ancient Greek philosophers are generally considered the origin of modern scientific thought; one of them liked to ask questions, the other considered ethics, and the final one focused heavily on the natural laws of the universe.
Who are Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle?
Don't play Seifert in this one! If you're not careful, he'll complete his six-piece pizza pan token and reach of the center of board in this game, all while you're still trying to figure out the 32nd President of the United States for your first piece!
What is Trivial Pursuit?
This constant is named for a 19th century physicist who, suffering bipolar disorder, chose to maximize the entropy of his grey matter in a self-inflicted manner -- relevant to this namesake constant that correlates thermal energy to temperature.
A favorite of Scripps chemist and Nobel prize winner Barry Sharpless, This common three-member ring functional group contains a bridging oxygen atom between two carbons.
What is an epoxide?
This equation allows one to calculate the states of constant energy, as well as the expected energies, for any microscopic state of particles.
What is Schrodinger's equation? (HΨ = EΨ)
In 2006, the International Astronomical Union discriminated this astronomical body against its other common brothers in the solar system due to its miniscule size; however, the New Horizons probe in 2019 revealed photographically that this body's chemistry and geology is far more diverse than once expected.
What is Pluto?
This game's characters have names based on colors; but be careful, it's not always the blood red character at fault!
What is Clue?
Planck's reduced constant, ℏ, is divided by this trigonometric constant to express the energy content of an electromagnetic wave per radian of oscillation.
What is 2pi?
Stinky! This sulfur containing functional group might be a common isoelectronic analogue to every student's favorite night-time functional group, but instead of being the life of the party, its presence will ruin *any* party!
What is a thiol? (-SH)
What is the particle in the box model?
E = n^2 h^2/8mL^2
In 2022, The Event Horizon Telescope project revealed images of this massive astronomical object, compiled from many years of observations taken from a giant international consortium of telescopes. You'd be forgiven if you thought it was a picture of the new Dunkin Donuts donut.
What is the Sagittarius A* black hole? (The black hole at the center of the Milky Way)
These two letters carry the most points, 10, in the game of Scrabble.
What are Q and Z?
The Seifert special: Specify the speed of light in vacuum, or c, to as many significant digits as possible in metric units.
What is 299 792 458 m/s exactly?
At minimum, an acid anhydride must contain this many oxygen atoms.
What is three?
This equation allows one to calculate the activity coefficient of a solvated electrolyte in diminishingly dilute conditions.
What is the Debye-Huckel Law?
log(γ±) =−0.509*|z+z−|/sqrt(I)
In 2021, scientists sequenced the DNA of this species that has been extinct for nearly 10,000 years after existing in the plains of North & South America. Its most common relatives diverged from the genetic line nearly 5.7 million years ago, so it's unlikely they're as pettable as your friend's Labradoodle.
What is the dire wolf?
In the crappy capitalist American version of Catan called Monopoloy, the properties that can be claimed are all based on streets in what US city?
What is Atlantic City, New Jersey?