A
A measure of how acidic or basic a solution is.
pH
What element is an essential component of batteries often used to store harvested solar energy?
Lithium
What does the A in ATP stand for?
Adenosine
What metallic element is liquid at room temperature and was often referred to as Hydrargyrum?
Mercury
Which of the peer mentors has a dog and which one has a cat?
Sofiya = dog, Emily = cat
What is collagen?
Which scientist first arranged the periodic table by atomic mass?
Mendeleev
One letter code for tryptophan
W
Why did Soren Sorenson invent the pH scale?
To make the quality of the lager produced by the Carlsberg brewery he was working for more consistent between batches
Which session number was the lab field trip?
10
a solid (such as sodium hydroxide) that dissolves in the moisture from the air
deliquescent
Mexico's Mario Molina got a 1995 Chemistry Nobel Prize for his role in discovering that CFCs are a threat to what UV absorbing portion of the Earth's stratosphere?
Ozone
This pathway generates NADPH and ribose-5-phosphate but does not directly produce ATP
pentose phosphate pathway
This rule states that in the process of addition of an unsymmetrical reagent in an unsymmetrical alkene, the negative part of the added reagent travels to the carbon that bears the double bond and has the least number of hydrogen atoms
Markovnikov’s rule
Why do chemists like nitrates so much?
because they're cheaper than dayrates
This rule states that every orbital in a sublevel is singly occupied before any orbital is doubly occupied
Hund's rule
What is the only acid that can dissolve gold
Aqua Regia ("royal water")
Carbon fixation, reduction, carbohydrate formation, and regeneration are the four basic phases of what photosynthesis cycle?
Calvin cycle
name the arrhenius equation
k = Ae ^ (-Ea/RT)
Why can you never trust atoms?
They make up everything
name the henderson-hasselbalch equation
pH = pKa + log ([A-]/[HA])
With which element can you make a disappearing spoon trick (in which the spoon dissolved when you use it to stir some nice tea or coffee)?
Gallium
What is phosphofructokinase-1 (PFK-1)?
This enzyme catalyzes the rate-limiting step of glycolysis by converting fructose-6-phosphate into fructose-1,6-bisphosphate
In which of the following paths is the entropy change of the system (not universal) greater? Point A to B along a reversible path or point A to B along an irreversible path? Or are they the same?
Reversible would have greater entropy.
What did the bartender say when Oxygen, Hydrogen, Sulfur, Sodium, and Phosphorus walked into the bar?
OH SNaP!!!! :)