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2. Give several examples cited in the film where chemistry is involved in the real world.
3. The introduction of the lithium battery was important to what medical advance?
5. The mass of the materials coming out of a factory must be equal to what?
7. What famous chemist discovered the polypeptide structure known as the alpha helix?
10. What common compound is formed from sodium metal and chlorine gas?
11. What common compound is made by reacting salicylic acid with ethyl acetate?
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The World of Chemistry
Episode 2 - Color
2. What did Newton use to demonstrate that white light was a mixture of colors?
3. How is the wavelength of red light different from that of blue light?
8. Many leading chemical manufacturers are German companies who started in what industry?
10. Attaching a poison to a dye that stains only certain cells is a form of ______________.
11. How a ruthenium dye binds to DNA can provide what kind of information?
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1. Measurements can tell us what is in a substance and how much is there. What else must be
true about these measurements?
2. Several examples were given of measurements that are made on an everyday basis. In what
areas were these measurements made?
3. What is meant when we say one balance is more ``sensitive'' than another?
4. How do we know if an instrument such as a balance is displaying the proper value for the mass
of an object?
6. Why are human standards (like a former King of England) not desirable?
a. a titration?
b. a standard solution?
8. When the bay water was tested for salinity, what evidence of chemical change took place?
9. Why is it important to know the amount of pollutants, such as mercury, present in water?
11. What is meant by precision? Is it possible for measurements to be precise but inaccurate?
13. Pollutants and trace minerals are often reported in units called ppm. What is a ppm?
14. Measurements may be made directly and indirectly. Give an example of each that you saw in
the video.
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1. What name may be used for the mental picture that a chemist forms?
3. What happens when the results of a test do not agree with a model that has been
formed?
5. What do current models suggest forms the reflective surface of Jupiter's moon Io?
6. How does the Kinetic Molecular Model for gases explain how the following would
affect the pressure of a gas?
a. Increasing the number of gas molecules.
1. The video states that states of matter may be changed. What is needed to make this possible?
3. Describe, at the molecular level, how temperature affects the pressure of a gas.
4. How does the collapsing can demo work. Draw diagrams of before, during, and after the
heating.
10. What does the shape of a crystal tell us about its internal structure?
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1. What are the three basic components (particles) that make up an atom?
3. How does the size of the nucleus compare to the size of an atom?
4. What is the Scanning and Tunneling electron Microscope (STM) used for?
7. What are the charges on the electron ________, the proton ________, and the neutron
________?
10. When two atoms meet, what parts of the atoms interact?
11. What are some ways that signals from the atom can be used?
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3. How many elements are on the modern periodic table? How many of these can be
found in nature?
4. Why do the symbols for some elements (such as iron) seem to have no relationship
to their name?
8. What are the ingredients used in the making of glass? What determines the color of
glass?
12. What did Mendeleev do for elements that had not yet been discovered?
14. Why are the electrons in the outer shell of an atom important?
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The World of Chemistry Episode 8 - Chemical Bonds
3. What are the indications of chemical change when sodium and chlorine react?
6. What does the shape of a crystal tell you about its internal structure?
2. Molecules that have the same number and kinds of atoms but differ in the way the
atoms are arranged in space are called _______________.
11. What happens to the optical activity of an amino acids in protein as it decomposes?
12. How is the process described in Question 11 used to determine the age of objects?
3. What is the relationship between the energy and the frequency of electromagnetic
radiation?
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1. Why is it important to use the correct amount of materials in a chemical reaction7
2. What names are given to the materials at the beginning and end of a chemical
reaction?
3. Atoms and molecules are extremely small. How do chemists "count" them? Can you
think of an everyday application of this?
4. a. What did early chemists discover about reactions involving the combination of
gases?
8. When the I V solutions were prepared, quality control was involved. What is quality
control?
9. Why did using twice as much magnesium not produce twice as much hydrogen in the
demonstration?
10. What ratio of starting materials was found to produce the best epoxy resin?
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The World of Chemistry Episode 12 - Water
1. What is the annual rate of consumption of water per person? What percent of this is
for agricultural purposes?
3. How does the mass of a water molecule compare to common gases like nitrogen,
oxygen, and carbon dioxide?
6. What are some properties of water that are due to hydrogen bonding?
7. What is unusual about the density of ice compared to the density of water?
9. What generalization may be made about whether or not one material will dissolve in
another?
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10. Why is there controversy about the amount of various chemicals that may be found
in a sample of water?
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10.What three factors were mentioned that determine how fast a chemical
reaction takes place?
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10. 10. What conditions are used to increase the yield in the Haber Process?
3. In the reaction between copper and zinc, which species are oxidized and reduced?
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10. What is formed at the electrodes in the production of aluminum?
1. Lime (calcium hydroxide) is the fifth most produced chemical in the United
States. What are some uses for lime?
litmus
magnesium
limestone
b. bases
c. Where are acids, bases, and neutral materials found on the pH scale?
7.What is an antacid?
8. Of the top ten chemicals produced in the United States, how many are acids and bases?
1. What are the three main gases that make up the atmosphere?
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2. What is the chemical formula for ozone?
8. How have scientists been able to monitor changes in the earth's atmosphere ?
9. What did the color change in the bromthymol blue solution containing the plant show
about the role of carbon dioxide and plants?
10. What is meant by the greenhouse effect? What atmospheric gases are thought
to be involved in this process?
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2. Iron is the most common element in the ``whole'' earth. Only about 6% of the crust is
made up of iron. What does this tell us about the distribution of minerals on the
earth?
3. What are the three ways that minerals are concentrated or formed on earth?
a.
b.
c.
4. Marble and limestone, common building materials, are composed of what mineral?
5. What is the similarity about the destruction of buildings and statues and the
formation of caves?
8. What is the name of the process used to obtain pure elements like silicon?
10. The density of silicate rocks varies between 2 and 3 g/mL. The density of iron is about
9 g/m:. How do these values relate to what we know about the structure of the earth?
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1. What fraction of the elements on the periodic table are metals?
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1. Give some examples of interfaces described at the beginning of the video.
4. What is the name for a chemical that can reduce surface tension?
6. Adhesives form bonds at interfaces. What are some problems in forming an adhesive
like ``Scotch Tape''?
10. How are catalysts like zeolites or molecular sieves different from other catalysts?
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The World of Chemistry Episode 21 - Carbon
1. What is organic chemistry?
4. When was nylon first developed? Why was its development so essential?
6. What is a hydrocarbon?
10. What were the ``ingredients'' in the synthesis of acetylsalicylic acid - aspirin?
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1. What determines the name for an age (stone age, bronze age, etc.)?
5. Arrange the following fractions in order from lightest to heaviest: asphalt, jet
fuel, lubricating oil, gasoline, diesel fuel
10.What was the key to the design of PETE soft drink bottles?
11.Why are polymers so widely used in the automobile and aircraft industries?
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1. What are the two common characteristics of living species as described in the video?
3. What are the building blocks used to form proteins? How many are found in nature?
4. The video estimates that 100 billion proteins may exist. How can so many proteins
form from just a few molecules?
5. What is the name of the bond that results in the formation of proteins?
6. What are the names of two common secondary structures of proteins? Give an
example of each.
Extra: Linus Pauling's contribution to protein structure is described in the video. What other
contributions has he made to chemistry and what other recognition has he received?
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The World of Chemistry Episode 24 - The Genetic Code
1. What are some of the ways mentioned that proteins are used in our bodies?
2. How many subunits are found in hemoglobin? What atom in found in the
center of each?
5. What may be the result of a change of one amino acid in a protein structure?
Give an example.
6. In DNA, how many bases are required to code for one amino acid in protein
synthesis?
9. What are the two types of RNA needed to carry out protein synthesis?
10. What can be the result of the improper coding of a protein during its
synthesis?
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The World of Chemistry Episode 25 - Chemistry and the Environment
2. What is the ultimate power source for the chemical reactions in life?
3. What gas is produced by burning coal and wood? What is a possible side
effect of increasing the levels of this gas in the atmosphere?
4. What insecticide which saved many lives from insect borne diseases was
banned because it killed birds and fish?
7. When chemical wastes are burned what materials are released into the
environment?
8. What is the name for the process that uses bacteria to break down
chemicals?
9 What process can help reduce possible pollution while saving money at the
same time?
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