Heating
Who What When Where Why
How does it flow?
Names and Acronyms
Trivia
100

What is the tool used for heating up a sample

Furnace

100

Who was the Italian scientist that we mentioned this morning in reference to a type of surface

First name Enrico

[Blank] Surfaces

Fermi
100

The chemical you breathe out of your body

CO2

100

AFM/MFM

Atomic Force Microscopy/Magnetic Force Microscopy

100

Evidence of a skin injury, also the name of one of the brothers in The Lion King

Scar

200

What is the scientific term for heating up a sample

Annealing

200

What is the reason that an inert gas doesn't interact with other materials chemically

It's full octet

200

What is flux?

A measure of the amount of a substance passing through a surface through a given time

200

What are the names of the samples prepared in Dr. Lisfi's lab this week

Cozee and Zergol

200

The name of the paper used in ancient Egypt.  Also, a funny skeleton

Papyrus

300

What is the process of rapidly cooling a sample called?

Quenching

300

When will the sun become a red giant

5 billion years from now

300

Provide a different analogy for how electrons flow depending on if an object is a conductor insulator or semiconductor

Case by case

300

As of this week what's my new name (Haven't changed the birth certificate yet).

Marco

300

The names of the two co-inventors of calculus (300 points each)

Leibniz, Newton

400

What happens to an object's resistance when it becomes a superconductor

It becomes 0

400

Where is the Vibrating Sample Magnetometer (Building and Room Number) 

Dixon G 019

400

The three bands that describe current flow between materials

Conduction band, forbidden band, valence band

400

CVD

Chemical Vapor Deposition

400

One of Morgan State's past names

Morgan State College, Centenary Biblical Institute

500

The range of temperatures that the PPMS operates at.


1.8K to 400K

500

Why doesn't zinc attract magnetic materials

Antiferromagnetic structure

500

An inert element that you can use in chemical vapor deposition to deposit the materials.  A pirate really likes it's chemical symbol

Argonne (Ar)

500

Name the grad students who presented this week, 200 points for each

Paul, Abhishek, Tamal, Rajeep

500

Roman Messenger God. Also the planet closest to the Sun

Mercury