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ACE Chemistry
Based on NAQT and HSAPQ questions, to help with academic bowl
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Forms compound with rhenium that can surpass hardness of diamond. Oxide added to silica to produce durable glass for labware. Hydride is a Lewis acid. Atomic number 5, symbol B | Boron |
Thought to be involved in modification of snRNPs. Alpha-solenoid and beta-propeller folds. Continuous with the rough endoplasmic reticulum. Red blood cells lack this. Contains protein-DNA complexes euchromatin and heterochromatin. Cell's genetic info. | Nucleus |
Anion. Found in Mohr's salt. Hydrated magnesium salts called Epsom salts. Found in gypsum. Copper salt called "bule vitrol." | Sulfate |
One method for measuring relies on Slater's rules and is named for Allred and Rochow. Germanium has high value. Highest in flourine. Atom's ability to attract electrons. | Electronegativity |
Quantity. Instruments for measurement account for variation due to temperature, generate current at electrode with high resistivity. Physiological one is constant to avoid denaturalizing enzymes. Concentration of hydronium ions. | pH |
Zundal cation displays symmetric examples of these structures. IMparts alpha-helical structure to amino acid chains. Responsible for crystalline arrangement of ice. Impart greater stability to compounds containing lightest element. | Hydrogen bonds |
This group of aluminosilicate minerals is important to the glass industry. Orthoclase and microcline are examples of it. | Feldspar |
This magnesium silicate is one of the softest minerals known and has a hardness of 1 on the Mohs scale. | Talc |
Often used to distinguish minerals is this property, which is the ratio of a density of a substance at a given temperature to the density of water at that temperature. | Specific gravity |
Sompound, sometimes called carbamide, which is used in fertilizers, and is excreted from the human body through urine. | Urea |
Urea has two of these functional groups, symbolized NH2, attached to a central carbonyl group. | Amine |
This class of polymers can be synthesized from the reaction of a di-isocyanate and an alcohol, and is used in foams, and spandex fiber. | Polyurethanes |
Cylinder with a round bottom and a lip at the top. Glass. Used to store small volumes of reagent. Stored on namesake racks. | Test tubes |
Used in the Kastle-Meyer blood test. Turns colorless in acidic solutions and pink in basic ones. Used in titrations. | Phenolphthalein |