Analytical
Separation, Identification and Quantification
What are the three key components in the definition of Analytical Chemistry?
What is the name of the organization that supplies most of the test methods used in accrediting paint?
You pop a blister on a coated sample and it is filled with a neutral pH liquid, what is the likely cause?
What is Osmotic Blistering?
What are the 4 main component categories of liquid paint?
What is Pigments, biner, solvents and additives
A Tukey-Kramer analysis is a for of this test?
T-Test
The term used for a material response to outdoor stressors like UV light and water.
What is weathering?
Radiation cure describes a method to crosslink a coating using these main two energy sources?
What is Ultraviolet Light and Electron Beam
The CIE color system “standardizes” the illuminant (idealized light source) and the what?
The human eye using the color matching functions
This process uses electricity and two electrodes to split water into oxygen and hydrogen gas?
What is electrolysis?
This research method is used to collect customer feedback?
Voice of the Customer (VoC)
Enter a sharepoint request, explain the problem you want to solve, and contact someone on Rich Simon’s team
What is "how to engage with the Analytical Group" or similar
Besides gloss, what is the other common evaluation used to assess panels that were exposed to accelerated weathering conditions?
What is Color?
How do you predict performance in one corrosion test from a completely different test?
You don't - changes in mechanism can occur.
What is the technical classification for resins that undergo reactive cure?
What is Thermosets.
These may be people, material, processes, or procedures in an experimental design
Inputs
This model explains why loss of coating gloss is not always accompanied by chalking.
What is the contraction model?
This is the most commonly used UV light?
What is medium pressure mercury lamp?
What software’s “color matching enging” is Sherwin Williams moving over to for both Aurora and Orion (Artemis)?
X-rite's iMatch 10
This general term describes the acid or amine that stabilizes the e-coat bath?
What is solubilizer?
"Managed Chemicals" is an opportunity space in this opportunity territory.
Sustainability
This is how to get a “Chemical Fingerprint” of a polymer or raw material?
What is Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy or FTIR
How many common ways can the testing & certification team determine the film thickness of a coating?
How many years does 2000 hours of ASTB B117 equate to?
Impossible to answer - there is not direct correlation
What is the primary reason why pot life on reactive cure systems must be evaluated and controlled?
What is prevent gelled equipment?
What the main effects are aliased with in a resolution 4 design?
3 way interactions
A test that shows good correlation at increased irradiance levels is said to have this.
What is reciprocity?
In order to properly cure a coating by EB, it is necessary to inert below this ppm of O2 in order to avoid oxygen scavenging of free radicals?
What is 200 ppm?
Which is the best “spectro type” instrument to use to measure the differences between coating gloss, A Sphere type or an Angle type?
Angle type
This piece of equipment provides the DC powder that drives the electrodepsotion?
What is rectifier?
Color Inspired by Nature
Structural Color
This is how to analyze volatile components in a complex mixture (such as a coating)?
What is Gas Chromatograph or GC or GC-MS
Which corrosion test is most similar to "real-world" exposure?
What is Cyclic Corrosion?
How can wet wood crates cause a corrosive environment?.
What is Anodic becomes more aciddic,; cathodic becomes more basic.
What does NISO stand for?
What is Non Isocyanate?
The 7-steps in a design of experiments process
Define Objective
Select Factors
Determine Factor Settings
Plan type of design
Run Experiment
Analyze
Make decisions
Hindered Amine Light Stabilizers (HALS) neutralize these chemical species in a paint film.
What are free radicals?
Known as excimer curing, this wavelength in the vacuum UV region is used to achieve a dead matte finish without requiring the use of matting agents?
What is 172 nm?
Metamerism is a measure (calculation) of what?
how 2 samples appear in color between different illuminants
This type of e-coat is superior for corrosion performance because it does not incorporate iron into the film during deposition.
What is cathodic?
This application method can print from a digital image to various surfaces without overspray.
Digital Printing
This is why LCMS is not always a good choice for analysis of some materials (more than one answer available)?
Acceptable answers include:
To what quality standard is the testing & certification team accredited to?
What is ISO 17025
This type of corrosion inhibitor acts to slow the anodic and cathodic reactions.
What is a mixed corrosion inhibitor
What two things drive the chemical reaction in IMCs?
What is Heat and Pressure?
The number of experiments in a full factorial of 4 levels and 3 factors MINUS the number of experiments in a full factorial of 3 factors and 2 levels.
56
This type of light scattering makes the sky blue and richer in UV light
What is Rayleigh scattering?
This type of acrylate is most commonly selected binder material, even though they are often more expensive?
What is (Aliphatic) Urethane acrylates? Bonus points of 250 if they said Aliphatic :)
Light interacts with objects in what primary ways, Reflection, Absorption, Transmission, and?
Scatter - ignoring fluorescence and phosphorescence
This team finds emerging technologies and new partners from outside the company that can accelerate innovation efforts?
Global Innovation Scouting Team (GIST)