Chemistry
Process Equipment
Biological Sciences
Separations
Material and Energy Balances
100

This is the number of moles of solute present in 1 kg of solvent.

What is Molality?

100

This device increases the pressure of a liquid to transport it from one place to the other.

What is a pump?

100

This is the synthesis of RNA under the direction of DNA.

What is transcription?

100

The ratio of the partial pressure of the vapor to the vapor pressure of the liquid at the gas temperature.

What is Relative Humidity?

100

If any of the process variables change with time, this is said to exist.

What is Transient or Unsteady State?

200

This is the most electronegative element.

What is Flourine?

200

A vessel that contains the distillate after it passes through the condenser.

What is a reflux drum?

200

He is considered to be the first person to prove that living microorganisms are responsible for fermentations.

Who was Louis Pasteur?

200

This separation process utilizes the formation of solid particles within a homogeneous phase.

What is Crystallization?

200

This is a material or energy stream that leaves a downstream process unit and is returned to the same process unit or upstream unit.

What is a Recycle Stream?

300

This is the Uranium isotope that is the most important for use in nuclear reactors.

What is U235?

300

A device used to convert an electrical signal into a pressure signal.

What is an I/P transducer?

300

These two molecules containing high reducing power are produced during the TCA cycle.

What are NADH and FADH2?

300

This happens when liquid collects into small rivulets and flows along localized baths in a packed column.

What is Channeling?

300

A plot of one system variable against another that shows the conditions at which the substance exists as a solid, a liquid, and a gas.

What is a Phase Diagram?

400

The only two elements to exist in a liquid state at standard temperature and pressure.

What are bromine and mercury?

400

Decreasing the pressure of a fluid while harvesting energy from the fluid is the main goal of this device.

What is a turbine?

400

These glycoprotein molecules are produced in the body in response to the introduction of an antigen.

What are antibodies?

400

In liquid extraction, this is the intersection of the raffinate-phase and extract-phase boundary curves.

What is the Plait Point?

400

The temperature at which Fahrenheit and Celsius scales are equal.

What is -40º?

500

The metallic element extracted using the Kroll Process.

What is titanium (or zirconium)?

500

A device consisting of two dissimilar conductors forming an electrical junction resulting in a temperature measurement.

What is thermocouple?

500

This eukaryotic organelle consists of a meshwork of fine tubules and is involved with lipid metabolism.

What is the Smooth Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER)?

500

This process is used to dry foods, vitamins and other heat sensitive products at temperatures below 0ºC.

What is Lyophilization (or freeze drying)?  

500

This laboratory apparatus is used to analyze gas samples for its oxygen, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide content and has been largely replaced by instrumental techniques.

What is an Orsat Gas Analyzer?