Famous Chemists
Known as the “first modern chemist”
Who is Robert Boyle?
Breaking Bad can be streamed on this service, which streams the prequel series “Better Call Saul” or other original series like “Stranger Things”.
What is Netflix?
Dr. Hermann’s favorite element
What is Vanadium?
Sodium chloride which you know better as “table” this
What is salt?
Discovered the electron
Who is J. J. Thomson?
After a high school chemistry teacher is diagnosed with cancer he partners up with his former student to sell this illegal substance.
What is methamphetamine?
This is the elemental symbol for Tin
What is Sn?
A solid can be finely analyzed using the EELS technique, which studies energy loss in these particles
What are electrons?
Invented the cathode ray tube
Who is Karl Ferdinand Braun?
A character’s brother-in-law works for this federal agency whose mission is to “enforce the laws of controlled substances in the United States…and reduce the availability of controlled substances”.
What is the Drug Enforcement Agency (or DEA)?
This is an element with one valence electron.
What is [Any element in group 1 (H, Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs, Fr)]?
Chemist Frederick Soddy came up with this term for atoms having the same nuclear charge but different masses
What is an isotope?
The celebratory 2011 marks 100 years since this radiant scientist’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry
Who is Marie Curie?
These “main characters” or kingpins of ABQ are known by Cap’n Cook and Heinsenberg
Who are Jesse Pinkman and Walter White?
Hydrogen has this many neutrons
What is zero
You exhale this gas first identified by British scientist Joseph Black in 1750s
What is carbon dioxide?
Many folks weren’t happy with the Nobel Committee’s decision to give the 1918 chemistry prize to ammonia synthesizer Fritz Haber as he had also overseen Germany’s production and use of this on World War I’s Western Front.
What is mustard gas?
“Los Pollos Hermanos is run by this ‘Better Call Saul’ man played by Giancarlo Esposito, but he has another job, too”
Who is Gustavo/Gus Fring?
The creator of the Modern Day Periodic Table (the one we use today)
Who is Dmitri Mendeleev?
Chemical compound obtained by the elimination of water from another compound.
What is an anhydride?