Dimensionless numbers
A dimensionless number that represents the relationship between pressure drop due to friction and inertial force in a moving fluid.
What is the Euler's number?
This reaction involves more than one phase, and the reaction usually occurs at the interface between the phases.
What is a heterogenous reaction?
The expression for this is C=kP.
What is Henry's Law?
Powerhouse of a cell.
What is mitochondria?
A company currently in the news after the tragic accident involving the Titan submersible, which resulted in five deaths.
What is Oceangate?
A dimensionless number that is expressed as the ratio of the actual to the theoretical flow rate of a fluid discharging through an opening.
What is the coefficient of discharge?
The first observed uses of these substances were in the making of wine, cheese, and bread.
What are catalysts?
CO2 in an alkali solution shows this phenomenon.
What is chemical absorption?
Site of protein synthesis.
What are ribosomes?
He played the main antagonist in the latest adaptation of a certain Indian epic that was released earlier this month.
Who is Saif Ali Khan?
A dimensionless number used in heat transfer calculations characterizing the relation between the convective heat transfer of the boundary layer of a fluid and its thermal conductivity.
What is Nusselt number?
Volume in litres occupied by a mole of ideal gas at 0°C and 1 atm.
What is 22.4?
A packed absorption tower cannot operate at a velocity greater than this.
What is flooding velocity?
Otherwise known as body fat.
What is adipose tissue?
Several communities on this social media website shut down in protest after the CEO announced that it would charge hefty fees to several popular third-party apps that accessed its data.
What is Reddit?
A dimensionless number used in fluid flow calculations that accounts for the permanent energy loss as a fluid moves over a surface.
What is friction factor?
The time required to process one reactor volume of entering feed.
What is space time?
The ratio of the height of packing and the number of ideal trays required to carry out the same amount of separation.
What is Height Equivalent to a Theoretical Plate (HETP)?
It's state of openness depends on the turgidity of a certain pair of cells shaped like beans.
What is stomata?
This Indian cricketer recently opened his restaurant in Amsterdam.
Who is Suresh Raina?
A dimensionless number used in non-steady-state heat transfer or mass transfer that relates the internal resistance to the flow of heat or mass transfer to the resistance of that flow at the surface of a solid body.
What is Biot number?
In this kind of reactor, reactants are continuously fed into the reactor vessel, where they are mixed and allowed to react, producing the desired products.
What is a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR)?
This kind of feed has q > 1.
What is sub-cooled liquid?
These are biological junctions through which neurons' signals can be sent to each other.
What are chemical synapses?
Infamous domestic terrorist of the USA who was found dead in his cell earlier this month.
Who is Ted Kaczynski or the Unabomber?