Chembowl Game 3

Toss-up questions
1. Hot peppers get their heat from a specific molecule. While the molecule acts as an
irritant to mammals, including humans, birds lack the receptor responsible for the effect
and are immune to the burning sensation from exposure. Name the molecule

Answer: capsaicin

2. Name the only letter that doesn’t appear on the Periodic Table of Elements.

Answer: J (not Q!)

3. What is “Weeping” in the Distillation column?

Answer: Weeping happens when the vapor flow rate is low and liquid passes through the
tray holes. As a result, the liquid flow rate is increasing, the rate of separation of
compounds losses down.

4. Name the fluid model in which the fluid initially resists flowing until the shear stress
exceeds a certain value and once fluid starts to flow there is a linear relationship between
shear stress and shear rate.

Answer: (Bingham Plastic Fluid Model)

5. Why does Mars look red to our eye?

Answer: Mars looks red to us due to its abundance of iron oxide. Another word for it: rust.

6. Give the name and surname of scientist who was awarded the Nobel laureate for his
discovery of Grignard reagent in 1912

Answer: (Victor Grignard)

7. Find the name of the pressure drop calculation method, which reports the losses in a
piping element as the length of straight pipe which would have the same loss.

Answer: (Equivalent lengths method)

8. For an ideal solution the partial vapour pressure of a component in solution is equal to
the mole fraction of that component times its vapour pressure. Name the law

Answer: Raoult`s Law

9. 1. Because of its usage in the manufacturing, it is considered as “the mother of all

commodities”. What is it?

Answer: (Crude oil)

10. Name the scientist who was the first winner of Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1901 for the
works with solutions

Answer: (Jacobus Henricus van’t Hoff)

Bonus questions
1. One hundred mol/h of butane (C4H10) and 5000 mol/h of air are fed into a combustion
reactor. Calculate the percent excess air.

Answer: 61.6%

2. Find the name of the process by which heavy hydrocarbon molecules are broken up into
lighter molecules by means of heat

Answer: Thermal cracking/Pyrolysis can also be accepted.

3. 1. in order to form of sulphate scale formation water has to rich these three ions. Finds
them:

Answer: Barium, Strontium and Calcium ( B)

4. To which sections is the distillation column divided? Show them clearly indicating for one
feed line which section will be upper/lower.

Answer: Stripping section (down) and Rectifying section (up)

5. Name the name of two ligands, forming an important cofactor of the haemoglobin
HemeB, and the number of donor atoms in it.
Answer: Protoporphyrin 9, tetradentate (4 donor atoms)