general knowledge
This country has a maple leaf on its national flag.
What is Canada?
The Department of Chemistry's block.
Where is block S8?
Charcoal briquettes are mostly made out of this element
What is Carbon?
This pH indicator turns pink in basic solutions.
What is phenolphthalein?
Singapore's national flower
What is Vanda Miss Joaquim?
This many participants signed up for today's event!
What? There's 54.
This browning reaction between amino acids and reducing sugars is why grilled meat tastes so good
What is the Maillard reaction?
A species with unpaired electrons is attracted to a magnetic field, what is this property called?
What is paramagnetism?
This is the deepest MRT station in Singapore.
Where is Bencoolen MRT station?
This is the year that NUS Chemistry was established.
What happened in 1929?
This is the pigment responsible for creating the pink 'smoke ring' on your barbecued meats.
What is nitrosylmyoglobin?
This functional group gives IR: strong peak at 1715cm⁻¹, NMR: broad singlet at 11ppm.
What is a carboxylic acid?
This sea separates Europe and Africa.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
NUS Chemistry has this many Educator Track Faculty members.
What? There's 14.
Overcooked grey-brown meat gets its colour from this pigment.
What is metmyoglobin?
This functional group gives a medium peak at about 2100cm-1.
What is an alkyne?
This is the largest desert in the world.
Where is the Antartic Desert?
Associate Professor Koh Ming Joo's team developed a new method to synthesise drug compounds bearing this halogen.
What is fluorine?
Smoke from dripping fat can deposit carcinogens on meat via incomplete combustion. Name the compound class.
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
This theory explains why making an electron-transfer reaction more thermodynamically favourable may eventually slow it down instead of speed it up.
What is Marcus theory?