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The "additive" primary colors of light are different from the "subtractive" primary colors of pigments. Which of these is primarily primary when it comes to pigments?
What does a lens do to light?
Laser is "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation." What is a maser?
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics is better known as CERN. Where is it?
As projected costs for the Superconducting Super Collider boomed, Congress canceled the project in 1993, which would have been built near Waxahachie in what state?
What does the first law of thermodynamics conserve?
That perpetual motion machine you just invented will never work, because the universe has a roadblock called entropy, which is defined in which of the laws of thermodynamics?
Plasma is called the "fourth state of matter." Where are you most likely to find plasma?
That's one heavy particle. What particle makes up 99.95 of the mass of a hydrogen atom?
According to Newton's third law, what do you get for every action?
A chemical whose name ends in -one probably contains which element, whose name erroneously suggests that it forms acids?
What is the chemical symbol of the element with the shortest English name?
Amedeo Avogardo's eponymous law covers the volume, temperature and pressure of what?
What theory first appeared in a 1905 paper called "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"?
Predicted by Paul Dirac and discovered by Carl Anderson, the positively-charged positron is the antimatter version of what negatively-charged particle?
Reflecting 95% of the light that hits it, what element is the most lustrous metal?
The noble gases were named because, just like the human nobles, they were thought to not react with common elemental folk. Which of these wasn't one of them?
Possibly because it does less damage when it hits its targets, what less lethal metal does the Lone Ranger have his bullets made from?
In its pure form, what metal has the highest electrical conductivity, as well as the highest thermal conductivity, highest optical reflectivity and lowest contact resistance?
What rare earth is the least rare, in that it is the most abundant of these elements?
What is the only element with no neutrons in the nucleus?
Now named for a bunch of gods, what element was discovered in England by Reverend William Gregor in 1791, who named it menachite for the Cornich town of Manaccan?
Oh, boy! What NBC series was named for the change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to the next?
The CIA is believed to have targeted Fidel Castro with this toxic element, also used as a murder weapon in Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse." Its properties are so odd that it's called the platypus of elements. What is this 81st element, a soft grey metal whose name comes from the Greek for "young shoot"?
First synthesized by Stanely Thompson, Kenneth Street, Albert Ghiorso and Glenn Seaborg in 1950, Element 98 was named for their university. And it's also the only element named for a state. What state is it?
On the scale of acid and base, pure water is neutral. What is the pH of water?
Many leading American commercial producers still refer to what metal as "columbium," the name originally given to it by Charles Hatchett?
The presence of what most corrosion-resistant element, named for its multi-hued salts, is considered evidence that an asteroid impact destroyed the dinosaurs?
As the Incredible Hulk might know, what type of energy is produced when matter and antimatter annihilate each other, and is also the lowest wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum?
The formula H20 means an atom of water contains two parts hydrogen and one part which element?
Thought to give mass to matter, what theoretical particle is sometimes called the God Particle?
What element, mined in Germany, is named for a kind of goblin that was blamed for the substance's impurities?
While observing an eclipse of the Sun in India, Pierre Janssen became the first person to discover an element outside the solar system. Which one?
After its first season, this TV series set at Hillman College in Georgia lost the star it was created for, as well as the then-obscure Marissa Tomei. What was it?
Which country has two elements named for it?
It's used to make computer chips, but add an E and you have R2SiO, a polymer with which Pamela Lee is well acquainted. What is it?
Extracted from brine and from seaweed, what halogen (whose name means "violet" is Greek) is used to treat cuts and sanitize water?
What poisonous element is known as quicksilver, for the way it flows at room temperature?
Vermillion, a reddish orange pigment, once came from what mercury ore, found near volcanoes and hot springs?
As people wearing watches may know, Jacques and Pierre Curie discovered that this mineral has a property called piezoelectricity, which means that it produces an electric current if pressure is applied to it. What is it?
What does a lens do to light?
Laser is "light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation." What is a maser?
The European Laboratory for Particle Physics is better known as CERN. Where is it?
As projected costs for the Superconducting Super Collider boomed, Congress canceled the project in 1993, which would have been built near Waxahachie in what state?
What does the first law of thermodynamics conserve?
That perpetual motion machine you just invented will never work, because the universe has a roadblock called entropy, which is defined in which of the laws of thermodynamics?
Plasma is called the "fourth state of matter." Where are you most likely to find plasma?
That's one heavy particle. What particle makes up 99.95 of the mass of a hydrogen atom?
According to Newton's third law, what do you get for every action?
A chemical whose name ends in -one probably contains which element, whose name erroneously suggests that it forms acids?
What is the chemical symbol of the element with the shortest English name?
Amedeo Avogardo's eponymous law covers the volume, temperature and pressure of what?
What theory first appeared in a 1905 paper called "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies"?
Predicted by Paul Dirac and discovered by Carl Anderson, the positively-charged positron is the antimatter version of what negatively-charged particle?
Reflecting 95% of the light that hits it, what element is the most lustrous metal?
The noble gases were named because, just like the human nobles, they were thought to not react with common elemental folk. Which of these wasn't one of them?
Possibly because it does less damage when it hits its targets, what less lethal metal does the Lone Ranger have his bullets made from?
In its pure form, what metal has the highest electrical conductivity, as well as the highest thermal conductivity, highest optical reflectivity and lowest contact resistance?
What rare earth is the least rare, in that it is the most abundant of these elements?
What is the only element with no neutrons in the nucleus?
Now named for a bunch of gods, what element was discovered in England by Reverend William Gregor in 1791, who named it menachite for the Cornich town of Manaccan?
Oh, boy! What NBC series was named for the change of an electron within an atom from one energy state to the next?
The CIA is believed to have targeted Fidel Castro with this toxic element, also used as a murder weapon in Agatha Christie's "The Pale Horse." Its properties are so odd that it's called the platypus of elements. What is this 81st element, a soft grey metal whose name comes from the Greek for "young shoot"?
First synthesized by Stanely Thompson, Kenneth Street, Albert Ghiorso and Glenn Seaborg in 1950, Element 98 was named for their university. And it's also the only element named for a state. What state is it?
On the scale of acid and base, pure water is neutral. What is the pH of water?
Many leading American commercial producers still refer to what metal as "columbium," the name originally given to it by Charles Hatchett?
The presence of what most corrosion-resistant element, named for its multi-hued salts, is considered evidence that an asteroid impact destroyed the dinosaurs?
As the Incredible Hulk might know, what type of energy is produced when matter and antimatter annihilate each other, and is also the lowest wavelength on the electromagnetic spectrum?
The formula H20 means an atom of water contains two parts hydrogen and one part which element?
Thought to give mass to matter, what theoretical particle is sometimes called the God Particle?
What element, mined in Germany, is named for a kind of goblin that was blamed for the substance's impurities?
While observing an eclipse of the Sun in India, Pierre Janssen became the first person to discover an element outside the solar system. Which one?
After its first season, this TV series set at Hillman College in Georgia lost the star it was created for, as well as the then-obscure Marissa Tomei. What was it?
Which country has two elements named for it?
It's used to make computer chips, but add an E and you have R2SiO, a polymer with which Pamela Lee is well acquainted. What is it?
Extracted from brine and from seaweed, what halogen (whose name means "violet" is Greek) is used to treat cuts and sanitize water?
What poisonous element is known as quicksilver, for the way it flows at room temperature?
Vermillion, a reddish orange pigment, once came from what mercury ore, found near volcanoes and hot springs?
As people wearing watches may know, Jacques and Pierre Curie discovered that this mineral has a property called piezoelectricity, which means that it produces an electric current if pressure is applied to it. What is it?