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In the Kitchen
Processes
Famous Chemists
It's a Gas!
Hodgepodge
100
Curt Jones studied chemistry at CC before inventing these delicious flash-frozen beads of ice cream
What are Dippin' Dots?
100
Increasing the percentage of u-235 in a sample of uranium is called this process; Iran says it has the right to do it
What is enrichment?
100
Marie Curie won her second Nobel Prize in Chemistry; her first was in this field
What is physics?
100
U.S. & Canada produce almost entire world supply of this lightest inert gas
What is helium?
100
On this scale, battery acid is listed as a 1, lye as a 14
What is pH?
200
This 2-word term means chemistry & physics have come to the kitchen; liquid nitrogen & lasers might be involved
What is molecular gastronomy?
200
In this process, a solid such as dry ice converts directly into a gas without going through the liquid stage
What is sublimation?
200
This sci fi author of "I, Robot" taught biochemistry at Boston University
Who is Isaac Asimov?
200
The natural color of chlorine gas
What is greenish-yellow?
200
On the periodic table, the halogens are located to the left of this group of gases that includes Krypton
What are the Noble Gases?
300
Making pasta? Make sure your water reaches this temperature Fahrenheit, equal to 100 degrees Celsius
What is 212 degrees?
300
Used as a purification process, it's the evaporation of a liquid & then the condensation of the vapor
What is distillation?
300
Dimitri Mendeleyev made modern chemistry possible when he set this grouping of the elements
What is the periodic table?
300
Term for charcoal turned on to trap gases
What is activated?
300
A short-tempered, long-haired chemistry teacher named John Nettleship inspired this J. K. Rowling character
Who is Severus Snape?
400
Alloys of iron make good pots and pans because of their ability to transfer heat, called thermal this
What is conductivity?
400
If you stay in the pool too long your fingers will become pruny because water migrated in this equalizing process
What is osmosis?
400
Good news! Ilya Prigogine showed that the second law of this doesn't doom the universe to a slow "heat death"
What is thermodynamics?
400
Fritz Haber is famous for inventing a process to make this smelly gas, NH3, synthetically
What is ammonia?
400
Organic chemistry is primarily the study of compounds containing this element
What is carbon?
500
A synonym for simple sugars, like glucose, this word is quite polysyllabic
What is monosaccharide?
500
Expose sulfur dioxide to moisture in the atmosphere to make this nasty form of pollution
What is a acid rain?
500
In 1905 this German aspirin maker won the Nobel prize for Chemistry
What is Bayer?
500
This gas is the chief constituent of natural gas
What is methane?
500
When lemon juice is dropped on blue litmus paper, the paper will turn this color
What is red?