Element Roast
"Diva" of the periodic table, refusing to interact with anyone because it's valence shell is already perfect
What is a noble gas?
This is the state where the rates of the forward and reverse reactions are equal, and students’ grades often stabilize.
What is equilibrium?
It’s the law, but only if you’re "Ideal."
what is ideal gas law?
This molecule is why the ocean tastes briny and why your pasta water boils slightly hotter.
What is NaCl?
This is the specific "scale" used to measure how acidic or basic a substance is, ranging from 0 to 14.
What is pH?
This element is literally the "backbone" of ochem and has a weird obsession with forming four bonds.
What is carbon?
This rule states that to be aromatic, a planar ring must have 4n + 2 pi electrons.
What is Huckel's rule?
This equation, pH = pKa + log([A-]/[HA]), is the only thing standing between a freshman and a failed titration lab.
What is Henderson Hasselbach?
This molecule is bent shape, and is the reason life exists.
What is water?
This mixture of hydrocarbons is "rated" by an Octane Number, which measures its ability to resist "knocking" in your car engine.
What is Gasoline?
This alkali metal is so reactive it has to be stored in oil just so it doesn't spontaneously explode upon touching air.
What is sodium/potassium?
In NMR, this term describes why protons in different environments show up at different frequencies on the spectrum.
What is chemical shift?
Named after a French guy, this principle says if you stress a system at equilibrium, it will shift just to spite you.
What is Le Chatelier's principle?
This molecule, C6H6 is a perfect hexagon of carbon atoms that smells like a gas station and hates addition reactions.
What is benzene?
These "forever chemicals" (PFAS) are used in non-stick pans because the bond between Carbon and this element is the strongest in organic chemistry and virtually indestructible.
What is F?
This transition metal is the "chameleon" of the lab; it can exist in oxidation states ranging from +2 to +7, famously turning from a deep purple to colorless in a titration.
What is Managense/Permanganate Ion?
This term describes when where a single Lewis structure fails to describe the true electron distribution, usually involving 'moving' pi bonds or lone pairs.
What is resonance?
This law, A = ebc, is the reason you spend hours staring at a spectra trying to find a concentration.
What is Beer's Law?
This specific point on a phase diagram is the "Vegas" of chemistry: where solid, liquid, and gas all coexist in a partaaayyy.
From plastic water bottles to the DNA in your cells, these "giant" molecules are made by linking thousands of small repeating units together in a long chain.
What are polymers?
This element is the second-most electronegative element, and it loves to "hydrogen bond" so much that it makes your DNA stick together.
What is oxygen?
This three-letter acronym describes the mechanism where a nucleophile attacks a primary alkyl halide and kicks out a leaving group in one smooth step.
What is Sn2?
This logarithmic equation, often used to model vapor pressure or reaction rates, relates the natural log of a ratio k2/k1 to the inverse difference of two temperatures.
What is Clausius-Clapeyron Equation?
This reagent, usually R-Mg-X, allows you to build carbon-carbon bonds.
What are Gringnards?
This common drug, also known as Acetylsalicylic Acid, is a classic example of an "ester" that many students synthesize in their first organic lab.
What is aspirin?