In the Lab
The chemical process in the Hammer Challenge belongs to this simple class of reactions
What is double replacement?
Oobleck is an example of this
What is a non-Newtonian fluid?
This is the restaurant where we had our welcome dinner on Monday night
What is BJ's?
This one word greeting is a mandatory call-and-response word for all Aggies
What is howdy?
Two U.S. Presidents have shared this last name (not to mention genetic material) which is a homonym of the fundamental units of matter that make up chemical compounds
What is Adams (atoms)?
The name of this Kingdom, which formally ceased to exist in 1918, shares its name with a dye that you explored in lab
What is Prussia (in Prussian blue)?
This formula for kinetic energy takes into account mass and velocity
What is KE= 1/2mv2?
These four people drove REU students to and from the hotel throughout the week
Who are Lindsay, Katie, EJ, and Dr. Antillon?
This is the sixth largest non-racing stadium venue in the world
What is Kyle Field?
As the chemical joke goes, if you have a sick chemist and you can't He or Cm, then you have to this element
What is Ba?
The IUPAC name 3′,6′-dihydroxyspiro[isobenzofuran-1(3H),9′-[9H]xanthen]-3-one is a mouthful, so we simply call it this
What is fluorescein?
This quantity describes a material's resistance to being deformed elastically under an applied stress
What is the elastic modulus?
This is the area of College Station where we brought you for lunch on Tuesday
What is Century Square?
This is the name of Texas A&M's mascot, who is officially the highest ranking member of its Corps of Cadets
What is Reveille?
The original Latin name for lead, which gives it its atomic symbol, might make more sense if you think about the official profession of Super Mario
What is plumbum?
The quantum dots followed a stoichiometric formula of ABX3, which is also a dead giveaway that these QDs belong to this class of materials
What are perovskites?
When making an aqueous solution in a volumetric flask, you want to make sure you've done this before filling it up to the calibration line
What is dissolved all the solute in the solvent?
During a tour of the building this week, you learned that the oldest wing of the TAMU Chemistry building was built in this year
What is 1928?
This U.S. President is buried on Texas A&M's campus
Who is George H.W. Bush?
While Francium is clearly named after France, this other element shares its namesake but with the Latin name as its base
What is Gallium?
This mechanochemical tool is one that you didn't get to use this week, but that can be used to induce uniaxial chemical stress in material's using a sharp probe and an applied force
What is an atomic force microscope (AFM)?
These are the names of the two compounds you combined in the Prussian blue experiment
What are potassium ferricyanide and iron (II) sulfate heptahydrate? (K3[Fe(CN)6] and FeSO4•7H2O)
If you subtract the room number of the classroom where we played jeopardy from the room number of the MIH, you arrive at this value
What is 2051 (2306-255)?
The A and the M in Texas A&M stand for this
What is Agricultural & Mechanical?
The island of Cyprus is believed to be the namesake of this element by way of Old English
What is copper?