Industrial Chemistry & Materials

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1.Which storage system banks energy by splitting water into hydrogen for fuel cells?
- A. Hydrogen storage systems
- B. NiCd
- C. Lead-acid
- D. Zinc-carbon
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Hydrogen storage systems
Did you know? Electrolyzers bank energy as hydrogen gas.
2.Which glue polymer sets instantly on wet surfaces, marketed as super glue?
- A. Silicone
- B. Cyanoacrylate
- C. Epoxy
- D. PVA
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Cyanoacrylate
Did you know? Cyanoacrylate polymerizes at a touch of moisture.
3.Which 1901 gusher made Texas the oil capital?
- A. Spindletop
- B. Drake's well
- C. Dhahran
- D. Prudhoe Bay
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Spindletop
Did you know? Spindletop's Lucas gusher put Texas on the oil map.
4.Which 1953 Nobel chemist proved polymers are giant molecules?
- A. Hermann Staudinger
- B. Karl Ziegler
- C. Linus Pauling
- D. Giulio Natta
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Hermann Staudinger
Did you know? Staudinger's macromolecular theory won the 1953 chemistry Nobel.
5.Which process makes sulfuric acid with a vanadium catalyst?
- A. Contact process
- B. Ostwald process
- C. Haber process
- D. Solvay process
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Contact process
Did you know? The contact process burns sulfur to SO3 over vanadium oxide.
6.Which Ostwald process product follows ammonia into nitric acid?
- A. Hydrochloric acid
- B. Nitric acid
- C. Sulfuric acid
- D. Phosphoric acid
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Nitric acid
Did you know? Ostwald oxidizes ammonia over platinum into nitric acid.
7.Which rechargeable battery did Sony first commercialize in 1991?
- A. NiMH pack
- B. Lead-acid pack
- C. Lithium coin cell
- D. Lithium-ion battery
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Lithium-ion battery
Did you know? Goodenough's 1980 cathode led to Sony's 1991 lithium-ion cell.
8.Which mineral family is fine porcelain made from?
- A. Chalk
- B. Gypsum
- C. Kaolin clay
- D. Sand only
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Kaolin clay
Did you know? Kaolin's white clay fires into translucent porcelain.
9.What does the octane rating of gasoline measure?
- A. Knock resistance
- B. Oxygen content
- C. Carbon share
- D. Energy per liter
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Knock resistance
Did you know? Octane rates a fuel's resistance to engine knock.
10.Which slippery polymer did Roy Plunkett discover by accident in 1938?
- A. Kevlar
- B. Silicone
- C. Teflon
- D. Vinyl
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Teflon
Did you know? Plunkett's tetrafluoroethylene became nonstick Teflon.
11.Why is sulfuric acid called the "king of chemicals"?
- A. Its price per gram
- B. Its medieval discovery
- C. Its vast use across industries
- D. Its royal purple color
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Its vast use across industries
Did you know? From fertilizer to batteries, sulfuric acid touches every industry.
12.Which metal catalyst does the Haber process traditionally use?
- A. Iron
- B. Nickel
- C. Platinum
- D. Copper
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Iron
Did you know? Promoted iron catalysts squeeze ammonia from its gases.
13.Which 1866 cell became the ancestor of the household dry cell?
- A. Voltaic pile
- B. Silver-oxide cell
- C. Leclanché cell
- D. Daniell cell
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Leclanché cell
Did you know? Leclanché's manganese dioxide cell led to the AA battery.
14.Which ingredient joins limestone to make Portland cement?
- A. Gypsum only
- B. Clay
- C. Iron ore
- D. Sand only
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Clay
Did you know? Portland cement burns limestone with clay, then grinds in gypsum.
15.Which refrigerant family did Midgley also invent, later ozone villains?
- A. CFCs
- B. Helium coolers
- C. Ammonia chillers
- D. Propane fridges
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CFCs
Did you know? Midgley's CFCs ruled fridges until the ozone hole verdict.
16.What is the main gaseous feedstock for making urea fertilizer?
- A. Carbon dioxide
- B. Oxygen
- C. Nitrogen
- D. Hydrogen
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Carbon dioxide
Did you know? Urea plants join ammonia with recovered CO2.
17.Who invented the lead-acid rechargeable battery in 1859?
- A. Thomas Edison
- B. Lewis Urry
- C. Waldemar Jungner
- D. Gaston Planté
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Gaston Planté
Did you know? Planté's lead-acid cells still crank every car starter.
18.Which two-part glue hardens by chemical reaction, not drying?
- A. Starch paste
- B. Rubber cement
- C. Glue stick
- D. Epoxy
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Epoxy
Did you know? Epoxy's resin and hardener cure into plastic.
19.Which process upgrades heavy fractions into gasoline by breaking molecules?
- A. Cracking
- B. Alkylation
- C. Hydrotreating
- D. Reforming
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Cracking
Did you know? Catalytic cracking splits long chains into fuel-range pieces.
20.Which 2019 Nobel honored Goodenough, Whittingham, and Yoshino for lithium-ion?
- A. Chemistry
- B. Peace
- C. Medicine
- D. Physics
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Chemistry
Did you know? The 2019 chemistry Nobel crowned the lithium-ion battery.
21.Which ancient glassmaking ingredient came from burned seaweed?
- A. Soda from seaweed ash
- B. Iron oxide
- C. Copper salts
- D. Powdered marble
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Soda from seaweed ash
Did you know? Seaweed ash supplied soda to the first glassmakers.
22.Which first commercial oil well launched the petroleum era in 1859?
- A. Baku, Azerbaijan
- B. Masjed Soleyman, Iran
- C. Spindletop, Texas
- D. Drake's well, Pennsylvania
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Drake's well, Pennsylvania
Did you know? Edwin Drake's 1859 Pennsylvania well started the oil age.
23.Which glass type resists heat shock in ovenware?
- A. Lead crystal
- B. Borosilicate glass
- C. Optical glass
- D. Soda-lime glass
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Borosilicate glass
Did you know? Borosilicate's low expansion survives oven-to-table swings.
24.Which 1950s British process floats glass on molten tin for perfect flatness?
- A. The float glass process
- B. The drawn sheet process
- C. The rolled plate process
- D. The crown glass process
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The float glass process
Did you know? Pilkington's float glass made every window plate-flat.
25.Which catalyst metal drives the Ostwald process?
- A. Iron
- B. Tungsten
- C. Platinum
- D. Zinc
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Platinum
Did you know? Platinum gauze oxidizes ammonia at glowing heat.
26.Which 1976 Exxon researcher designed the first lithium rechargeable cathode of titanium disulfide?
- A. John Goodenough
- B. Akira Yoshino
- C. Michael Whittingham
- D. Jeff Dahn
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Michael Whittingham
Did you know? Whittingham's Exxon cells stored ions between crystal layers.

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