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2000 < Re < 4000
What is the transition from laminar to turbulent pipe flow?
100
One of the greatest and most prolific mathematicians of all time, he became blind late in his life.
Who is Leonard Euler?
100
This infamous nuclear catastrophe occurred in 1986 in Ukraine, killing 31 people and spreading radioactive material throughout Europe.
What is Chernobyl?
100
It is represented by the symbol K in a first-order transfer function.
What is the Process Gain?
100
In this type of reaction, the stoichiometric coefficients of reactants generally become the orders of each reactant in the reaction rate expression.
What is an elementary reaction?
200
In statistics, normality of data is indicated by this variable.
What is the p-value?
200
He developed a famous mathematical equation that would later be called Stoke's Theorem.
Who is Lord Kelvin?
200
A 2011 tsunami triggered this nuclear disaster that destroyed three of this plant's six reactors.
What is Fukushima?
200
This type of resin is used in cation-exchange chromatography.
What is an anion resin?
200
This assumption holds that the accumulation of intermediates in a reaction with respect to time is zero.
What is the Pseudo-Steady State Assumption?
300
1.618
What is the Golden Ratio?
300
The two "inventors" of calculus.
Who are Newton and Leibniz?
300
This is what happens when an Exxon oil ship collides with Prince William's Sound near the coast of Alaska.
What is the Exxon-Valdez oil spill?
300
Used extensively in the enzyme engineering, this famous equation relates the initial reaction speed to the initial substrate concentration.
What is the Michaelis-Menten equation?
400
9.80 m/s^2
What is the gravitational acceleration (on Earth)?
400
His name is Leonardo of Pisa, but you know him better as a famous sequence of numbers.
Who is Fibonacci?
400
Another result of Mother Nature, 2012's Hurricane Sandy caused a New York power plant to explode, causing a blackout in Manhattan.
What is the ConEdison explosion?
400
This type of reactor is used for reaction orders greater than 1, when a high conversion is needed from a high reactant concentration.
What is a plugged-flow reactor (PFR)?
500
8.314 J/(mol*K)
What is the gas constant?
500
Known as the "Prince of Mathematics," he was a German mathematician who developed the Normal distribution.
Who is Carl Friedrich Gauss?
500
The world's worst chemical disaster. A 1984 leak of methyl isocyanate killed 3,787 people in this Indian city.
What is the Bhopal disaster?
500
Theoretically, an infinite number of this type reactor connected in series is the equivalent of one plugged-flow reactor.
What is a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR)?