A fluid is considered "Newtonian" when its viscosity is independent of its shear (stress) rate applied at a constant temperature. An example is water. Now name the newtonian fluid in this list: house paint, ketchup, motor oil, shampoo, toothpaste.
What is motor oil?
In 1923 Bronsted and Lowry determined that when an acidic substance loses a proton it forms this.
A base.
During this process an enzyme in yeast called zymase converts sugar into alcohol.
What is fermentation?
A student holds a book at rest in an outstretched hand. The force exerted on the book by the student is equal to this property of the book.
What is weight?
In taxonomy animals are classified by domain then kingdom then this subdivision.
What is phylum?
Reduction occurs at this in a Galvanic cell.
What is the cathode?
Mendeleev didn't know about this set of elements and didn't include them on his table, but which today includes elements like argon and radon.
What are noble/inert gases?
There are three main types of these in the body - smooth, striated, and cardiac.
What are muscles?
Ground effects on race cars are to keep the tires on the track fighting this 4-letter force that tries to raise them.
What is lift?
The most common element in the human body.
What is oxygen?
In the late 19th century, scientists postulated that this travels in waves through what they called luminiferous ether. The Michelson-Morley experiment tested the speed of this as well.
What is light?
When tested using this, proteins test positive. (Hint: choose from Fehllings solution, Quicklime, Benedict's solution, and Biuret tests)
What is the biuret test?
These hairlike projections on protozoans are used for locomotion.
What are cilia?
The gears in a clock are examples of the simple machine called a wheel and this.
What is an axle?
This endocrine gland controls the rate at which cells burn food & produce energy.
What is the thyroid gland?
Scientists have long been able to calculate the masses of most planets, including Earth. (Gravity, mass, and distance play an important role in these calculations btw.) It has taken longer to measure the masses of Mercury and Venus, primarily because these two planets lack these.
What are moons?
The Nernst equation relates the voltage of an electrode to this.
What is aqueous ion concentration?
Riding shotgun on the kidneys, these glands weigh barely 5 grams each, but produce vital hormones.
What are the adrenal glands?
Edward Lorenz's idea of linking this creature to changes in the weather became the basis of chaos theory.
What is the butterfly?
This geologic formation may be found overhead if you are in a cave. (Hint: is it stalactite? or stalagmite?)
What are stalactites?
A 9-letter process or type of coil that produces high-voltage current from low voltage.
What is an induction coil?
Used as a purification process, this is the evaporation of a liquid and the condensation of the vapor.
What is distillation?
Your baroreceptors are sensory devices that keep this steady.
What is blood pressure?
A subatomic particle consisting of a quark and an antiquark the J particle is also called by this Greek letter name.
What is psi?
The term for the condition when three celestial bodies are arranged in a straight line. (Hint: choose between occultation, parallax, syzygy, and triple transit)
What is Syzygy?