Mechanocrnyms
LAG
What is liquid assisted grinding?
Early mechanochemists would likely be coined this term, owing to their scientific passions but also to their hunt for the Elixir of Life
What are alchemists?
This is the term for a force or stress directed only in one direction
What is uniaxial?
These are the four PIs in the CMCC at Texas A&M
Who are Batteas, Altman, Tabor, and Felts?
In a standard combustion reaction, a hydrocarbon reacts with oxygen to always form these two compounds
What are water and carbon dioxide?
RAM
What is resonant acoustic mixer/mixing?
This Greek philosopher wrote one of his many treatises, On Stones, sometime in the 3rd to 4th century B.C.E.
Who is Theophrastus?
This type of stress force is what occurs at sliding interfaces
What is shear?
What are Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY (Adv. Sci. Research Center)?
For an ideal gas, pressure, temperature, volume, and the number of molecules are all related to each other in that PV/NT will be equal to this named constant, kB
What is the Boltzmann constant (1.30 x 10-23 J/K)?
TSE
What is twin screw extruder/extrusion?
This famous scientist was credited with some of the earliest mortar and pestle literature, but you likely know him more for his last name as a unit of electrical charge
Who is Faraday?
In the hydrostatic stress tensor, all elements are zero, except the ones found here
What is on the diagonal/the diagonal elements?
This is the only time zone in the continental United States (i.e., excluding Alaska, Hawaii, and territories) that is not represented by a CMCC institution
What is Mountain Time?
If 3.250 mol He, 0.0780 mol Ar, 0.200 mol Xe, and 5.3005 mol Kr are combined together, the total number of moles of gas should be expressed with this many significant figures
What is 3?
MIH@TAMU
Mechanochemistry Innovation Hub at Texas A&M University
This man was the first to put mechanochemistry under its own header in a chemistry textbook in 1891
Who is Ostwald?
This is the name for the kind of force that acts equally in all directions
What is isotropic?
This is our only current international academic institutional partner in the Center
What is the University of Birmingham?
The solubility product expression for the chemical reaction
Pb3(PO4)2(s) --> 3Pb2+(aq) + 2PO43-(aq) -->
is
Ksp = [Pb2+]3[PO43-]2
CMCCDB
What is the Center for the Mechanical Control of Chemistry Database?
This man is considered the "father of mechanochemistry," even though he ordered his notebooks burned upon his death
Who is M. Carey Lea?
In the stress tensor elements, i is the surface orientation while j is this
What is the direction of the force?
These nine of the United States host one or more CMCC academic institution
What are Texas (A&M), California (UCMerced, Stanford), Ohio (Cinc.), New York (CUNY, Hunter), Massachusetts (MIT), Illinois (NW), Pennsylvania (UPenn), Virginia (W&M), and Tennessee (Vandy)?
Consider the reaction mechanism:
1. A + 3B --> C
2. C --> E + F + H
3. E + G --> 3B + H
Overall: A + G --> F + 2H
Species 3B differs from C and E. Despite neither appearing in the overall, 3B is a _____ while C and E are _______.
What is catalyst and intermediates?