ExChEL Group Study Session

(BILLONES, FULGENCIO, LAYUG, LOPEZ, SAMPAGA)

(Session no.11, August 11, 2016)

Physical and Chemical Principles Trivia

1. The earths mass
a. 6.39 x 1023 kg
b. 1.898 x 1027 kg

c. 5.972 x 1024 kg
d. 4.867 x 1024 kg

2. The first element to have been discovered in an Asian country.

a. Samarium
c. Nihonium
b. Indium
d. Technetium
e.
3. Hot/Warmer water can freeze faster than colder water.
a. Leidenfrost Effect
b. Bartholomeo Effect
c. Mpemba Effect
d. The statement was never proven.
e.
4. It is widely used as a fertilizer because of its high nitrogen content. It
contributes to soil acidity.
a. Ammonium sulfate
c. Ammonium nitrate
b. Ammonium nitrite
d. Ammonium chloride
e.
5. The _________ from 60Co is used to treat cancers near the surface of the body.
a. Sigma-radiation
c. Gamma-radiation
b. Pi-radiation
d. UV-radiation
e.
6. A three-dimensional periodic table that takes into account valence-shell
energies has been proposed by
a. Dmitri Mendeleev
c. Leland Allen
b. Lothar Meyer
d. Charles Janet
e.
7. It is the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
a. Laser
c. Infrared
b. Ultraviolet
d. Wavelength
e.
8. A polymer that is used to make bullet-proof windows.
a. Lexan
c. Bisphenol-A
b. Silica
d. Phosgene

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9. It is a substance made of carbon nanotubes and is the blackest substance

known, absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum.
a. Vantablack
c. Black olive
b. Onyx
d. Jet
10.It is commonly called fools gold because of its gold luster.
a. Pyrite
c. Aluminum
b. Copper
d. Vanadium oxide
e. ANSWER KEY:
f.
1. The earths mass
a.
b.
c.
d.

6.39 x 1023 kg - Mars

1.898 x 1027 kg Jupiter
5.972 x 1024 kg - Earth
4.867 x 1024 kg - Venus

2. The first element to have been discovered in an Asian country.

a. Samarium - samarskite, the name of the mineral from which it was
first isolated.
b. Indium indicium, meaning violet or indigo.
c. Nihonium
d. Technetium tekhnetos, meaning artificial.
e.
3. Hot/Warmer water can freeze faster than colder water.
a. Leidenfrost Effect - physical phenomenon in which a liquid, in near
contact with a mass significantly hotter than the liquid's boiling point,
produces an insulating vapor layer keeping that liquid from boiling
rapidly.
b. Bartholomeo Effect
c. Mpemba Effect
d. The statement was never proven.
e.
4. It is widely used as a fertilizer because of its high nitrogen content. It
contributes to soil acidity.
a. Ammonium sulfate
c. Ammonium nitrate
b. Ammonium nitrite
d. Ammonium chloride
e.
5. The _________ from 60Co is used to treat cancers near the surface of the body.
a. Sigma-radiation
c. Gamma-radiation
b. Pi-radiation
d. UV-radiation
6. A three-dimensional periodic table that takes into account valence-shell
energies has been proposed by
a. Dmitri Mendeleev
c. Leland Allen
b. Lothar Meyer
d. Charles Janet
7. It is the light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation.
a. Laser
c. Infrared
b. Ultraviolet
d. Wavelength
8. A polymer that is used to make bullet-proof windows.
a. Lexan
c. Bisphenol-A
b. Silica
d. Phosgene

Property of Billones, Fulgencio, Layug, Lopez, Sampaga

9. It is a substance made of carbon nanotubes and is the blackest substance

known, absorbing up to 99.965% of radiation in the visible spectrum.
a. Vantablack
c. Black olive
b. Onyx
d. Jet
10.It is commonly called fools gold because of its gold luster.
a. Pyrite
d. Aluminum
b. Copper
e. Vanadium oxide
c.

Property of Billones, Fulgencio, Layug, Lopez, Sampaga