Question
Colleagues of this scientist speculated his death was a suicide after he was nominated 41 times for the Nobel prize, but never won. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this scientist, who isolated heavy water in 1933 and coined terms such as “photon” and “fugacity.” His paper “The Atom and the Molecule” introduced a notation universally used today.
ANSWER: Gilbert N. Lewis
[10e] In “The Atom and the Molecule,” Lewis represented these chemical species with dots. Two of these species make up a lone pair, while radicals have an unpaired one of these species.
ANSWER: valence electrons
[10m] Strong Lewis acids can be mixed with these other acids to form superacids. Acids under this theory are classified as proton donors and bases as proton acceptors.
ANSWER: Brønsted–Lowry theory [or Brønsted–Lowry definition]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Fall (Rutgers) | 10/14/2023 | Y | 5 | 18.00 | 100% | 20% | 60% |
Data
| Columbia A | Lehigh | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Penn | NYU B | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Princeton | NYU C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Swarthmore A | University of Delaware B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland | Swarthmore B | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |