Global Top 50 Chemical Firms
This German company is the world’s largest chemical producer with $74.5 billion in 2023 chemical sales.
What is BASF?
This popular astrophysicist, author of “Death By Black Hole” and host of TV’s “Cosmos,” earned a BA in Physics from Harvard University in 1980.
Who is Neil DeGrasse Tyson?
The active ingredient in Drano.
What is sodium hydroxide?
The combined force of cohesion and adhesion that results in the following:
What is capillary action?
This mountain range runs along the western coast of South America.
What are the Andes mountains?
This company is the United States’ largest chemical maker with $44.6 billion in 2023 chemical sales.
What is Dow?
Word that describes a theory in theoretical physics, a family of instruments in an orchestra, and cheese that you can easily pull apart.
What is string?
Chemical name for baking soda.
What is sodium bicarbonate?
The bond angle (1 decimal place and within 1° of the accepted value) between the central oxygen and the hydrogen atoms.
What is 104.5°? (any value between 103.5 and 105.5° is acceptable).
This is the highest mountain in Africa.
What is Kilimanjaro?
This company is China’s largest chemical maker with $58.1 billion in 2023 chemical sales.
What is Sinopec?
Subatomic particle (varieties include strange and charmed) whose name was taken from the James Joyce work "Finnegans Wake.”
What is a Quark?
In 1945 Grand Rapids, Michigan was the first community to add this compound to tap water to reduce tooth decay in children.
What is sodium fluoride? (sodium hexafluorosilicate or hexafluorosilicic acid are also acceptable responses).
Thumber describes the water on this frozen lake by this word in Bambi.
What is the water is “stiff?”
This is the northernmost national capital in the world.
What is Reykjavik, Iceland?
This company is South Korea’s largest chemical maker with $42.4 billion in 2023 chemical sales
What is LG Chem?
Full name of the British scientist (died on April 8th, 2024) who discovered the Higgs Boson.
Who is Peter Higgs?
Mothballs are commonly made of paradichlorobenzene or this chemical.
What is naphthalene?
The tightness on the top layer of water due to cohesion.
What is surface tension?
This country is known as the “Land of a Thousand Lakes.”
What is Finland?
This company is the world’s largest industrial gas producer with $30.7 billion in 2023 chemical sales.
What is Linde?
Howard Aiken received a PhD in Physics from Harvard in 1939, and in 1944 he installed the Harvard Mark I, a computer designed for this giant computer company
What is IBM (International Business Machines)?
Mixing bleach and this compound commonly found in kitchens produces toxic chlorine gas.
What is vinegar?
The density of water is equal to 1 gm/mL at this temperature (°C)
What is 4°C?
This is the second-largest island in the world and part of it is politically part of Indonesia.
What is New Guinea?