Materials
What gives gold jewelry its golden color?
Copper.
Gold is alloyed with copper
Who teaches MSE 311, 312, & 313
Hason Fong 🐐
How old is Roberts Hall?
104 years old
This element is replaced by our school's logo in the chemistry study center
What is Tungsten (W)?
This is the only non-president to be featured on a U.S. paper bill.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
A country named after a material
China
Which MSE professor has the highest "Rate My Professor" rating?
Matthew Yankowitz (5.0)
Dawyane Arola (4.8)
Coordination number of a BCC crystal lattice
8
This metal is known for its resistance to rust and is commonly used in cutlery
Stainless Steel
Length of the entire human digestive system
Approximately 30 feet.
The most abundant material in the US penny
Zinc
Which 20th Century US President was a metallurgist?
Herbert Hoover
Number of bones are in the human body
206
This element shares a name with a popular Seattle-originating song.
What is Lithium (Li)?
This animal defecates cubes
What is a wombat?
Where can an extremely large sapphire can be seen?
The supermarket.
Some bar-code scanners have windows made of artificial sapphire.
What medieval Asian ruler's name meant "iron worker?"
Genghis Khan
How old is the MSE department at UW? Hint: it is NOT 125 years as the Roberts banners show.
132 years, started in 1893.
Carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal pattern and layered structure form this compound we use on the daily, often incorrectly called another element!
What is graphite?
Which continent has the largest desert?
What is Antarctica?
What is the most encountered and largest molecule?
A bowling ball.
It is made of one long polymer chain.
Winners of the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2000
Alan Heeger, Alan MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa, three materials scientists who developed electrically conductive polymers.
Atomic packing factor of an FCC crystal
0.74
Aluminum
Discovered in 1928, this groundbreaking substance revolutionized medicine by combatting bacterial infections.
What is penicillin?