Catherine McCoid and LeRoy McDermott argued that the curvy proportions of figures with this name were from pregnant sculptors looking down at their bodies. For 10 points each:
[10e] Paleolithic figures found at Willendorf and Hohle Fels are named for what goddess, who is depicted in an armless Greek statue “de Milo?”
ANSWER: Venus [accept Venus of Willendorf; accept Venus de Milo; accept Aphrodite or Aphrodite of Melos]
[10m] Name this spectroscopic technique in which signals are normalized to chemical shift values. This technique investigates the structure of molecules by applying a strong magnetic field before perturbing them.
ANSWER: NMR spectroscopy [or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; accept proton NMR; accept carbon-13 NMR]
[10m] Two answers required. Sarah Murray has argued that female artisans made much of the geometric designs of Archaic Greek pottery, which was eclipsed by figure-heavy vase paintings named for these two colors.
ANSWER: red AND black [accept red-figure pottery and black-figure pottery]
[10h] The sample holders in NMR spectrometers perform this action to average out diffusional motion. In one form of NMR, this action is performed at a “magic angle” of 54.7 degrees to improve resolution.
ANSWER: spinning [accept magic angle spinning or magic angle turning; accept word forms like spun or turned; accept synonyms like rotating or word forms like rotation]
[10h] Around 100 BCE, the female portraitist Iaia of Cyzicus (“ee-EYE-ah of SIZ-ick-us”) devised quick ways to produce tempera and this other medium. The Fayum portraits were made with this medium in which oils are mixed with heated wax.
ANSWER: encaustic
[10e] Magic angle spinning is used in a variant of NMR that analyzes samples in this state of matter. Substances in this state of matter have closely packed atoms and have a definite shape and volume.
ANSWER: solid [accept solid-state NMR or solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance]
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