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100
This is an important part of lab safety ware, protecting the eyes from chemical splashes.
What are goggles, available for $15 from the Chem Club?
100
This kind of solvent will dissolve substances that don't have any dipole character.
What is a non-polar solvent?
100
This enzymatic cofactor is abbreviated FAD.
What is flavin adenine dinucleotide?
100
What is the Greek letter that stands for the wavefunction?
What is PSI?
100
This is the GC part of GC/Mass Spec.
What is gas chromatography?
200
This piece of lab glassware features a narrow neck and a triangular cross-section.
What is an Erlenmeyer flask?
200
This lab technique involves SLOWLY allowing a product to precipitate out of solution.
What is recrystalization?
200
This is a form of enzymatic regulation whereby a non-substrate factor binds to the enzyme somewhere other than the active site?
What is allosteric regulation?
200
This worldwide holiday is celebrated on October 23.
What is Mole Day?
200
So there's benzene, right? Then there's naphthalene, right? What's next in the series?
What is anthracene?
300
There are exactly this many centimeters in one inch.
What is 2.54 cm
300
Mercury, bromine, and caesium, and maybe gallium.
What are the elements that are liquid at or near room temperature?
300
This is how much trouble you'd be in if you were to use glassware from Brown's analytical shelves when prepping for a show.
What is a whole lot of trouble?
300
This element was discovered from unknown spectral lines of sunlight.
What is helium?
300
This is a single layer of graphite.
What is graphene?
400
This principle says that matter cannot be created or destroyed?
What is the law of conservation of mass?
400
This reaction features a diene and alkene which undergo a cycloaddition, forming a cyclohexane.
What is the Diels-Alder reaction?
400
This quantum model can be used to model the rotational degrees of freedom of a diatomic molecule.
What is the rigid rotator?
400
This thermodynamic potential measure the AVAILABLE work in a system.
What is Gibbs free energy?
400
This element is known as kohlenstoff in German.
What is carbon?
500
This is an atom that has gained or lost electrons such that it is no longer neutral.
What is an ion?
500
This compound acts as a catalyst for the decomposition of hydrogen peroxide.
What is manganese dioxide? Or maybe possium iodide?
500
If you look closely at a piece of glassware, you might see this S superposed on a T and a pair of numbers to signify what kind of glass joint the piece has.
What is a Standard-Taper Glass Joint?
500
This is an change in a system that does not cost any entropy and is in thermodynamic equilibrum throughout?
What is a reversible process?
500
This modern quantum method makes use of the Hohenberg-Kohn theorems to directly calculate electronic energy via a functional on the electron density function.
What is Density Functional Theory