Question
This element is used to separate the isotopes lithium 6 and lithium 7 in the COLEX process. A compound of this metal, carbon, and hydrogen can lead to neurological damage when ingested in Minamata disease. Polarography uses a “dropping” electrode of this element, whose chloride, known as calomel, is used in many other electrodes. This element’s sulfide forms the mineral cinnabar, which is used in the pigment vermillion. The non-metric “torr” unit of pressure is approximately equal to 1 millimeter of this element. For 10 points, amalgams contain what metallic element that is a silvery liquid at room temperature? ■END■
ANSWER: mercury [or Hg]
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= Average correct buzz position
Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 64.33 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 56.25 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 48.67 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 10 | 100% | 0% | 30% | 65.50 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 11% | 69.67 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 20% | 58.60 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 60.25 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 13% | 62.63 |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Illinois | fall | Y | 9 | 100% | 0% | 22% | 52.56 |
Buzzes
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Derek Chen (UG) | Columbia A (UG) | Columbia B | 22 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine (DII) | Penn B (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | 22 | 10 |
| Quinn Vaughen | RIT B | Binghamton A | 32 | 10 |
| Alec Riso | Cornell D | Syracuse | 34 | 10 |
| Kate Merritt (UG) | West Virginia A (UG) | Michigan State A | 34 | 10 |
| Justin Qian | UBC B | Arizona State A | 34 | 10 |
| Ilyas Choukri | Virginia Tech A | Appalachian State B | 34 | 10 |
| Nick Machin (UG) | UCLA A | UCLA C | 34 | 10 |
| Jason Lee (DII) | Rutgers A (UG) | Columbia B | 34 | 10 |
| Matthew Westley | Purdue A | Purdue C | 34 | 10 |
| Arjun Saulnier (DII) | CWRU B (DII) | West Virginia B (UG) | 35 | 10 |
| Annabelle Koopmans | UW Greed | UW Pride | 35 | 10 |
| Liam Markland | Alberta | UW Wrath | 35 | 10 |
| Ishaan Kashyap | Georgia Tech C | Auburn A | 35 | 10 |
| Benny Shtutman | South Carolina A | Belmont | 36 | 10 |
| Derek Aldridge | William & Mary | VCU | 38 | 10 |
| Andrew Nucci (DII) | UCLA E | Claremont A | 38 | -5 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Purdue B | 38 | 10 |
| Jack Piros | Illinois C | WashU A | 38 | 10 |
| Robinson Lee (UG) | Claremont C | Claremont B | 39 | 10 |
| Danielle Webb | SIUE | Iowa A | 39 | -5 |
| Sanika Iyer | Indiana | Iowa B | 39 | 10 |
| Alice Ton Nu | UW Envy | UW Gluttony | 42 | 10 |
| Ethan Furman (DII) | Penn A (DII) | Fordham A | 42 | 10 |
| Greta Hong (DII) | Bard A (UG) | NYU B | 47 | 10 |
| Azura Gollamudi | Northwestern B | Illinois D | 47 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell C | Cornell E | 49 | 10 |
| Ethan Ma | Illinois B | Chicago B | 49 | -5 |
| Jack Stuhlman (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | 50 | 10 |
| Arthur Zhang (DII) | NYU A (UG) | Maryland A (DII) | 50 | 10 |
| Tianyu Xu | Georgia Tech A | Auburn C | 51 | 10 |
| Rohit Chintala (DII) | Maryland B (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | 51 | 10 |
| Benny Feldman | Chicago A | Notre Dame B | 51 | 10 |
| Mikolai Davis (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | Miami C (DII) | 53 | -5 |
| Rafeed Rahman Turjya | Georgia A | Georgia Tech E | 53 | -5 |
| Derek Chen (UG) | Columbia A (UG) | Penn A (DII) | 53 | 10 |
| Tarun Koti | Emory A | Tennessee B | 59 | 10 |
| Yuki Brown (DII) | Miami B (UG) | CWRU A (UG) | 60 | 10 |
| Cole Polley (UG) | Michigan B (UG) | Miami A (UG) | 60 | 10 |
| Zander Schwartz | Vanderbilt A | Tennessee A | 60 | -5 |
| Aaron Taylor | Mississippi State A | Clemson A | 60 | 10 |
| Fish Tsai (DII) | UCSD | USC | 60 | 10 |
| Leonard Castine (DII) | Penn B (DII) | NYU A (UG) | 60 | 10 |
| Sam Hewitt | WashU B | Illinois A | 60 | 10 |
| Rachel Fanous (DII) | Michigan A (UG) | Ohio State A (UG) | 61 | 10 |
| Griffin Elder | Tennessee A | Vanderbilt A | 61 | 10 |
| Daniel Tritasavit (DII) | UCLA D | UCLA B | 62 | 10 |
| Aidan Jones | Liberty A | Virginia | 63 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore (DII) | Jefferson County Scholars (DII) | Michigan State B | 65 | 10 |
| Sidhant Chaliha (DII) | Princeton A (UG) | NYU B | 65 | -5 |
| Natalee Vernon (DII) | Miami C (DII) | Ohio State B (DII) | 66 | 10 |
| Euan McCubbin | UW Chastity | UW Sloth | 67 | 10 |
| Emmett Cho | Chicago B | Illinois B | 67 | 10 |
| Claire Chambers | Binghamton B | Cornell G | 68 | 10 |
| Nolan Keating (DII) | Lehigh B (DII) | Rutgers B | 68 | -5 |
| Elijah O'Sick Johnson | Binghamton C | U of Rochester B | 69 | 10 |
| Angelo Pan (UG) | CWRU C (UG) | Ohio State C (DII) | 69 | 10 |
| Akajiugo Amucheazi | Southern | Vanderbilt B | 69 | -5 |
| Daniel Chen | Emory Oxford | Clemson B | 73 | 10 |
| Andrea Owusu | Duke A | Liberty C | 73 | 10 |
| Albert Li | Duke B | James Madison B | 73 | -5 |
| Riley Sherman | ESF | U of Rochester A | 75 | 10 |
| Danny Cutbill | RIT A | RIT C | 75 | 10 |
| Joseph McCusker (DII) | Fordham A | Columbia J (DII) | 75 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | UNC B | Tusculum | 78 | 10 |
| Taman Truong | Arizona State B | Boise State | 79 | 10 |
| Cameron Wiliams | Appalachian State A | UNC A | 79 | 10 |
| Soren Heydari | UNC C | Liberty B | 81 | 10 |
| Victor Bender | Penn State | Cornell B | 82 | 10 |
| Joshua Davenport | Georgia Tech D | Auburn B | 82 | 10 |
| Carly Hemani | James Madison A | Virginia Tech B | 82 | 10 |
| Chase Barrick (DII) | Lehigh A (UG) | Rowan A (DII) | 82 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell A | Cornell F | 95 | 10 |
| Steven McPhillimey (UG) | Lehigh A (UG) | Bard A (UG) | 97 | 10 |
| Annika Larson (DII) | Claremont A | UCLA E | 98 | 10 |
| Alex Lin (DII) | Rutgers B | Rowan A (DII) | 98 | 10 |
| Allen Xu | Georgia Tech E | Georgia A | 99 | 10 |
| Sambodh Sinha | Vanderbilt B | Southern | 99 | 10 |
| Ben Kantsiper | James Madison B | Duke B | 99 | 10 |
| Alex Lin (DII) | Rutgers B | Lehigh B (DII) | 99 | 10 |
| Brielle Rach | Iowa A | SIUE | 99 | 10 |
| Vinayak Singh Bhadoriya | NYU B | Princeton A (UG) | 101 | 10 |