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100

The origins of chemistry stem from this ancient discipline

What is alchemy
100

This metal becomes liquid in your hands at room temperature

What is Gallium?

100

The scientific invention won the Nobel Prize for 2020 

What is CRISPR?

100

The discoverer of Radium and Polonium

Who is Marie Curie

200

This element was thought to give the consumer of it eternal life

What is mercury?

200
The state of matter of glass
What is a liquid?
200
These two professors at Purdue won the Nobel prizes in Chemistry

Who are Brown and Negishi?

200

The creator of periodic table 

Who is Mendeleev?
300

One of the original models of an atom was referred to as a type of food

What is the plum pudding model?

300

When placed in the flame of a Bunsen burner copper produces a blue flame; sodium is this color


What is yellow?

300

In 2018, this prize winner was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work - the directed evolution of enzymes

Who is Frances H. Arnold?

300

The discoverer of the structure of DNA 

Rosalind Franklin

400

Wilhelm Roentgen discovered X-rays when he was studying this 

What are cathode rays?

400

These compounds are commonly used as refrigerant coolant

What are chlorofluoro-carbons?

400
These three years were without a Nobel Prize in Chemistry

What are 1940, 1941, and 1942?

400
This chemist is sometimes referred to as the "father of modern chemistry"

Who is Lavoisier?

500

Jan van Helmont discovered this gas in 1930

What is carbon dioxide
500

This 2nd-lightest gas is the only element that can't be solidified by cooling at normal atmospheric pressure

What is helium?

500
The Nobel Prize in 1918 was awarded to _____ for the synthesis of ammonia

Who is Fritz Haber?

500

The first chemistry Nobel Prize was awarded to this chemist

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff