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100

The specific type of energy balance that considers changes in energy content within a system over time.

What is a transient or unsteady-state energy balance?

100

The aromatic compound is a common component of mothballs.

What is naphthalene?

100

Capital of Canada

Where is Ottawa

100

Fastest rotating planet.

what is Jupiter?

100

Father of Plastic Surgery.

Who was Sushruta?

200

The mathematical model commonly used to describe steady-state molecular diffusion in a binary system.

What is Fick's Law?

200

The functional group is present in aldehydes and ketones.  

What is the carbonyl group?

200

“Madhubani”, a style of painting is popular in this state of India.

Where is Bihar

200

Largest Volcano in the Solar System.

What is Olympus Mons?

200

The American Virologist who invented the Polio Vaccine.

Who was Jonas Edward Salk?

300

This phenomenon, often neglected in material balances, accounts for the change in mass of a system due to a nuclear reaction.

What is nuclear transmutation?

300

The process by which a carbon-carbon double bond is converted into a single bond by the addition of atoms.

What is hydrogenation?

300

Island country in the Indian Ocean is known for its Lemurs.

Where is Madagascar?

300

The element formed in Big Bang Nucleosynthesis.

What is Helium?

300

The "Quick Freezing Method" was invented by _____

Who was Clarence Birdseye?

400

The factor that quantifies the effectiveness of a diffusional mass transfer process relative to convective mass transfer.  

What is the Sherwood number?

400

The type of isomerism where the order of attachment of atoms in a molecule is different.

What is structural isomerism?

400

Capital of Ukraine

What is Kyiv?

400

Recent mission to study Jupiter's Icy moons.

What is JUICE (Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer)?

400

The Chemical physicist won Nobel Prize in 1963 for the discovery of the nuclear shell of the atomic nucleus. 

Who was Maria Goeppert Mayer?

500

The dimensionless group is used to predict whether mass transfer is dominated by diffusion or convection.

What is the Peclet number?

500

The phenomenon where the substituents on a benzene ring influence the rate and orientation of electrophilic aromatic substitution.

What is ortho-, meta-, para-directing effect?

500

Mountain range separating Europe and Asia.

What is Ural?

500

The first Astronaut to tweet from space.

Who is Mike Massimino?

500

A polymer chemist, Hideki Shirakawa, an inorganic chemist, Alan MacDiarmid, and a physicist, Alan Heeger, were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2000 for this notable discovery, opening the path for commercial electronics.

What are Conducting Polymers (Polyacetylene)?