{"id":1049017,"date":"2012-12-05T08:58:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-05T08:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.immortalitymedicine.tv\/chemistry\/chemistry-world-christmas-quiz-day-3.php"},"modified":"2024-08-17T18:01:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T22:01:03","slug":"chemistry-world-christmas-quiz-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/chemistry\/chemistry-world-christmas-quiz-day-3.php","title":{"rendered":"Chemistry World Christmas quiz, day 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer’s to these questions can be found here<\/a><\/strong>. Day 4 of the quiz can now be found here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>

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On the third day of Christmas… Well, you get the idea. It’s day 3 of the Chemistry World<\/em> quiz.<\/p>

Today’s first question is: Why was this (erroneous) structure of a chemical, isolated from fungi found on a dead log in Siberia, back in the news this year, after first causing controversy back in 2006?<\/strong><\/p>

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What is this structure?<\/p><\/div>

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Who became president of the Royal Society of Chemistry in July? <\/span><\/strong><\/p>

And now the answers to yesterday’s quiz<\/a><\/strong>. The giant of organic synthesis who joined Rice University was none other than K C Nicolaou<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>

The nerve gas that researchers at the Los Alamos National Laboratory figured out how to destroy safely using computer simulations was VX<\/a>. Nicholas Cage’s approach to dealing with VX in the film The Rock<\/em> could be described as rather more hands on! Finally, for the bonus point, the chemical name of VX is (O<\/em>-ethyl S<\/em>-[2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl] methylphosphonothioate). Very well done if you got that. You can read about the LANL scientists’ work here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>

As always, don’t phone, it’s just for fun!<\/p>

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