Elements
Transition metal commonly found in magnets.
What is iron?
Isolates the presence of reducing sugars in a solution.
What is Benedict's solution?
The name of a reaction between a hydrocarbon and oxygen.
Proposed the idea of electron orbits, much like the planetary system.
Who is Niels Bohr?
The experiment where the charge of the nucleus was discovered.
What is the gold-foil experiment?
Most common element found in Earth's crust.
What is oxygen?
Distinguishes between an aldehyde and a ketone.
What is Tollen's reagent?
Phenolphthalein is a common indicator used in this type of reaction.
What is an acid-base reaction?
Developed the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
Who is Lord Kelvin?
Process used to convert nitrogen gas to ammonia.
What is the Haber process?
Element discovered in 1789 by heating a yellow substance with charcoal.
What is uranium?
Reagent commonly referred to as potassium permanganate.
What is Baeyer's reagent?
The reaction of a transition metal with several groups called ligands.
What is complexation?
Won a Nobel Prize for discovering radium and polonium.
Who is Marie Curie?
One of the first experiments to successfully isolate organic compounds from inorganic compounds.
What is the Miller-Urey experiment?
Commonly used as a catalyst and has six isotopes.
What is platinum?
Used to indicate the presence of tyrosine residue in proteins.
What is Millon's reagent?
The addition of chlorine gas to methane to form methyl chloride.
What is free radical halogenation?
Connected optical activity to the chirality of a molecule.
Who is Louis Pasteur?
Phenomenon discovered by observing pollen particles move in water.
What is Brownian motion?
Transforms into 238-plutonium during alpha decay.
What is curium?
Uses a red metal-pyridine complex to oxidize organic compounds.
What is Collins reagent?
The specific name of the process used to create polyethylene terephthalate (PETE).
What is condensation polymerization?
First scientist to create hexachloroethane.
Who is Michael Faraday?
This theory was disproved through the synthesis of urea.
What is vitalism?