Who's that chemist?!
This chemist has a well known law named after him which states that equal volumes of gases under the same conditions of temperature and pressure will contain equal numbers of molecules. This chemist also coined a SI constant with the same name as a rodent like animal.
Who is Amedeo Avogadro
Dihydrogen monoxide is a compound that commonly used to demonstrate the effects of scientific jargon fear-mongering. It has a much simpler, common name. What is that name?
What is Water (H2O)
This type of bond is found in CH4, F2, and NH3. It is an "equal" sharing of electrons between two non-metals due to the balance of attractive and repulsive forces between atoms.
What is covalent bond
This organic compound is responsible for the smell of mothballs and has a chemical formula of C10H8.
What is naphthalene
This fundamental law of thermodynamics states that sum of the disorder of interacting systems is only increasing, never decreasing. This law also states that heat dissipates from a warmer body to a cooler body.
What is the Second Law of Thermodynamics
This chemist's research led to her eventual death, believed to be caused by aplastic anemia. This chemist has been credited with naming and discovering Polonium and Radium, and pioneering the field of radioactivity.
Who is Marie Curie
Americium, Neptunium and Berklium are all elements named after places (namely the Americas, Neptune, and Berkley, CA). What is an example of a country named after an element?
What is Argentina (named after Ag, silver)
This type of bond is due to dipole-dipole interactions between a highly electronegative atom and element with an atomic mass of approximately 1.00 g/mol.
What is hydrogen bond
This class of molecule contains a hydroxy group, which exhibits polarity. This class of molecule is used commonly as a fuel, and is highly flammable.
What is alcohol (R-OH)
This principle in quantum mechanics prohibits knowing the momentum and position of a particle simultaneously. The name of this principle is the name of a German physicist and also co-opted by the main character in Breaking Bad.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
This chemist coined the name for oxygen and developed the law of conservation of mass. He is known as the father of modern chemistry because he established the importance of experimentation in chemistry.
Who is Antoine Lavoisier
Alchemy is the precursor to modern chemistry. One of the core beliefs of alchemy is the existence of the Philosopher's stone, a substance believed to transmute metals to gold, or grant everlasting life. In pursuit of the Philosopher's stone, physician Hennig Brandt discovered what common element?
What is Phosphorous
This structure is used to demonstrate the localization of electrons and lone pairs throughout a molecule using a series of dots and lines. These structure typically obey the octet rule, though there are exceptions.
What is Lewis Dot Structure
This reaction mechanism is a bimolecular, one step reaction that results in inversion of the stereochemistry at the reaction center. This reaction is coined with a three character abbreviation
What is SN2 reaction
Quantum mechanics deals with particles that exhibit ___-___ duality, rather than only one or the other such as in classical mechanics. Such particles include photons. This principle explains the contradictions found when examining the behavior of photons and electrons.
What is wave-particle duality
This chemist is has a law named after him stating that the ratio between the volumes of the reactant gases and the gaseous products can be expressed in simple whole numbers. This chemist's work in alcohol-water mixtures led to a unit of measurement that we use to determine the alcohol percentage in a drink (ABV).
Who is Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
In ancient China, a pigment known as Cinnabar was used for art, calligraphy, medicine, and ritualistic practices. However, the pigment with its bright red color was exceedingly toxic. What is the main element(s) in cinnabar that gives it its toxicity?
What is HgS, mercury sulfide
This shape theory is used to predict 3-D molecular geometries based on the interactions and positions of valence shell electron pairs. This shape theory places the electrons as far apart as possible without breaking the bond to configure shapes.
What is VESPR (valence shell electron pair repulsion) theory
This organometallic synthesis reaction uses a reagent of the same name to add onto an aldehyde or ketone to form an alcohol. The reagent is typically prepared by reacting an alkyl halide with magnesium to form the organomagnesium halide reagent.
What is Grignard Reaction
This well known partial differential equation is foundational to the study of quantum mechanics. This equation describes the motions of small particles, such as electrons, as wavefunctions. The name of this equation is shared with a philosophical thought experiment concerning quantum superpositioning.
What is Schrodinger's Equation
This chemist has a law stating that the vapor pressure of a solvent above a solution is equal to the product of vapor pressure of the pure solvent with the mole fraction of that solvent. This chemist's law is often used in conjunction with Henry's law in thermodynamics.
Who is Francois-Marie Raoult
This atomic model was proposed by J.J. Thomson in 1904. It consisted of an atom where electrons were embedded in a large positively-charged mass with no nucleus. This atomic model is known by what food related name?
What is the Plum Pudding Model
This orbital theory describes the electron configuration of atoms through quantum mechanical principles. This theory states that electrons are delocalized through the molecule rather than being confined to one bond. Orbitals from this theory are computed using linear combinations of atomic orbitals (LCAO).
What is Molecular Orbital (MO) Theory
This molecule exhibits a high amount of symmetry, including 180º rotations, 60º rotations, inversion and mirror planes along horizontal, vertical and dihedral axes. This molecule is classified with a point group of D6h and is a common six carbon hydrocarbon defining the aromatic molecule class.
What is benzene
The "ultraviolet catastrophe" coined by early physicists lead to the development of quantum mechanics to explain this phenomena. Max Planck's work on this concept led to the development of quantized energy levels, laying the groundwork for quantum mechanics.
What is Black Body radiation