You could say it glows
Origins
Heavy Metal
Deathly Metal
Salt of the Earth
200
Contrary to the 90s space-themed song by They Might Be Giants, this is not a mass of incandescent gas but a miasma of plasma.
What is the Sun?
200
This metal's chemical symbol derives from the Latin word plumbum due to its use in Roman plumbing.
What is lead?
200
In the movie "Iron Man", it turns out Tony Stark's Iron Man suit is not made of iron rather an alloy of titanium and this precious metal.
What is gold?
200
Cinnabar, a paint known for its deep red color, contains this toxic metal.
What is Mercury?
200
Table salt is the common name for this ionic compound.
What is sodium chloride?
400
This beetle family is famous for their green glow.
What is Lampyridae (or Firefly)?
400
This building's name comes from a Oregon chemist who won both the Nobel prize in Chemistry (1954) and Peace (1962).
What is the Linus Pauling Science Center?
400
This country has most metal bands per capita (53.5 bands per 100,000) than any other country.
What is Finland?
400
Chromium VI chloride (CrCl6) is high toxic while chromium III chloride (CrCl3) is non-toxic. This is an example of an element have different properties due this charge state of an atom.
What is an oxidation state (or charge)?
400
A famous mountain range is the origin of this popular salt that gains its pink color from trace amounts of iron.
What is Himalayan salt?
600
The spontaneous emission of photons (includes fluorescence and phosphorescence).
What is luminescence?
600
This spice comes from stigma of a Middle-Eastern crocus.
What is Saffron?
600
This metal band popularized the "metal horns" or "devil horns" associated with metal music, and contributed to the namesake of the Joester family's nemesis in Jojo's Bizarre Adventures.
Who is Dio?
600
This liquid alloy has a knack for explosions when in contact with water due being part sodium and potassion.
What is NaK?
600
Sodium chloride (NaCl) can react with fatty acids in a reaction called saponification to create this household item.
What is soap?
800
Daily Double
What is chlorophyll?
800
This purple tropical flower from the bean family is used to dye blue jeans.
What is Indigo?
800
Vaseline glass, named after its vaseline jelly color, glows green under UV light due to this radioactive metal.
What is Uranium?
800
This two-time Nobel-prize winning chemist died to her groundbreaking work on radioactive metals.
Who is Marie Curie?
800
One part sodium and one part amino acid. This savory salt is found in seaweed, eggs, meat and tomatoes.
What is MSG (monosodium glutamate)?
1000
This early 20th century theory came about to address the UV Catastrophe that came from classical physics failing to model black-body radiation.
The solution? There could be no fraction of a discrete energy quantity already carrying minimal energy.
E=nhf
What is quantum mechanics?
1000
When burning metal salts, the color of the flame results from the heated metal ions absorbing what?
What is Light?
1000
This halogen is commonly added to table salt to prevent hypothyroidism and is commonly found in eggs, diary, sea salt and seafood.
What is iodine?
1000
This blue pigment contains cyanide, and is important treatment for heavy metal poisoning like from thallium and mercury.
What is Prussian Blue?
1000
Daily Double
What are electrolytes?