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100

What is the most electronegative element on the periodic table?

What is fluorine?

100

H2O2

What is hydrogen peroxide?

100

Who is credited with creating the first periodic table?

Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?

100

What is the process called when a solid changes directly to a gas?

What is sublimation?

100

Who is the chemistry departmental administrative assistant and undergraduate studies coordinator?

Cindy Knight

200

Group 1 elements on the periodic table are called what?

What is alkali metals?

200

CH3CH2OH

What is ethanol?

200

Who created the plum pudding model of the atom?

Who is J.J. Thomson?

200

What metallic element that is liquid at room temperature was once known as "hydrargyrum?"

What is Mercury?

200

How many floors are in the UVA chemistry building?

What is five floors?

300

What element on the periodic table has the symbol W?

What is Tungsten?

300

KMnO4

What is potassium permanganate?

300

Winning for "their synthesis of new radioactive elements" the second woman to win the Nobel prize for Chemistry was the daughter of two other Nobel prize winners. What was the family's surname?

Who is Curie?

300

What are the 2 principle elements in the Earth's crust? 

What is silicon and oxygen?

300

What is the address of the chemistry building?

What is 409 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, VA 22904

400

Element 30 on the Periodic Table is often found in lotions and preparations to prevent sunburn and windburn. What is the two-letter chemical symbol (not the element's name) for Element 30?

What is Zn?

400

(NH4)3PO4

What is ammonium phosphate?

400

Who is considered the father of modern chemistry and developed the law of conservation of mass?

Who is Antoine Lavoisier?

400

What is the name of chemist Dr. Bunsen Honeydew's redheaded assistant on "The Muppet Show?"

What is Beaker?

400

What soon-to-be former (hopefully) UVA professor is currently under Title IX investigation?

Who is Professor Landers?

500

How many elements are on the periodic table?

What is 118 elements?

500

Ca(HCO3)2

What is calcium bicarbonate?

500

The law of which 17th century British chemist defines the proportional relationship between the pressure and volume of a gas?

Who is Robert Boyle?

500

What is the name of the only element that was discovered before it was found on Earth?

What is Helium? (It was first detected in the spectrum of the Sun's light)

500

What is one of the room numbers for the organic chemistry laboratories?

444, 446, 454, 458