Vocab
This is the state at which both the reactants and products are present in concentrations which have no further tendency to change with time.
What is equilibrium?
This chemist created a version of the periodic table of elements.
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
This reaction converts carbon dioxide and water into food (glucose) and oxygen.
What is photosynthesis?
6CO2 + 6H2O → C6H12O6 + 6O2
This functional group has a triple bond between two carbons.
What is an alkyne?
This is the name of CaI2
What is calcium iodide?
This is a model used in chemistry to predict the geometry of individual molecules from the number of electron pairs surrounding their central atoms.
What is VSEPR (Valence shell electron pair repulsion) theory?
This chemist was a pioneer of electrical science and invented the electric battery and discovered a methane-air mixture could be exploded using an electric spark – the basis of the internal combustion engine.
Who is Alessandro Volta?
Although we're not engines, our body performs this reaction to metabolize sugars.
What is combustion?
This functional group has an oxygen atom bonded to two alkyl or aryl groups: R-O-R'
What is an ether?
This is the name of Ca3P2
What is calcium phosphide?
A molecule or ion is called this if it cannot be superposed on its mirror image by any combination of rotations, translations, and some conformational changes.
What is a chiral molecule?
This chemist discovered the first-ever artificially created radioactive atoms, paving the way for innumerable medical advances, especially in the fight against cancer.
Who is Irène Joliot-Curie?
This reaction is important to digest food and make nutrients able to be absorbed.
What is hydrolysis?
This functional group containing a carbon–nitrogen double bond (C=N). The nitrogen atom can be attached to a hydrogen or an organic group. The carbon atom has two additional single bonds.
What is an imine?
This is the name of CH3COOH.
Acetic acid (systematically named ethanoic acid)
This definition names an acid as a proton (H⁺) donor, and a base is a proton acceptor.
What are Brønsted–Lowry acids and bases?
This chemist was the first to mention the idea later named nuclear fission, discovered rhenium, and was nominated three times for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
Who is Ida Noddack?
This specific step turns water to oxygen, and occurs in the thylakoids of cyanobacteria and the chloroplasts of green algae and plants.
This functional group has two acyl groups bonded to the same oxygen atom, and is a a non-metal oxide which forms an acidic solution when reacted with water.
What is an acid anhydride?
This is the name of H3C-C---C-CH2-CH3
What is pent-2-yne?
This is the simple classical model of the thermodynamic behavior of gases
What is the Kinetic Theory of Gases?
This chemist invented condensation polymerization—a reaction that combines monomers with reactive end groups, releasing water in the process. This was used to create nylon.
Who is Wallace Carothers?
This process occurs when a material, typically a solid substance like activated carbon, binds to CO2 molecules resulting in their removal from the gas phase, and is important for carbon sequestration.
What is adsorption?
(Not to be confused with absorption: another carbon capture process that typically involves treating a gas stream with a solvent that selectively absorbs CO2 while allowing other gases like nitrogen, oxygen, and water vapor to pass through. The solvent used in absorption of CO2 is called amine (mixture of NH3-based gases), which reacts with CO2 to form a chemical species known as a carbamate)
This functional group is: R−N=N−R′, in which R and R′ can be either aryl or alkyl groups.
What is a diazenyl group?
This is the name of Br-CH3-CH3-CNO2H2-CClH2-CH3-CH3-CH3
What is 1-bromo-4-chloro-3-nitroheptane?